Job 42:13

Job 42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

Ver. 13. He had also seven sons and three daughters ] Whose perfections sweetened the sorrow which the loss of the other had caused him.

- Sic uno avulso non deficit alter Aureus (Virg.).

Ten children he had in heaven, and ten on earth. See Trapp on " Job 42:10 " The Lord well knew that wealth would be nothing so comfortable to Job unless he had children to leave it to, Genesis 15:2 . His wife therefore, returning to her duty from which she had swerved, became fruitful at an age well advanced; for we read not of any other that he had.