Job 42:15

What does Job 42:15 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 42:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And in all the land were no women found [so] fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

Context

v.14And he called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.

v.15This passage

v.16And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 144:12

    When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;

  • Joshua 18:4

    Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come unto me.

  • Joshua 15:18

    And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said, What wouldest thou?

  • Acts 7:20

    At which season Moses was born, and was exceeding fair; and he was nourished three months in his father’s house:

  • Numbers 27:7

    The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

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