...had before. His friends rally round him now that he is again in prosperity, and make him presents. " So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning." And he had seven sons and three daughters, and lived to see his sons' sons to four generations. Is...

...troubles, " the prosperous issue out of all his afflictions " which God gave unto Job. Job xlii. 12 : " So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning." The same idea comes out in one of Bildad's speeches, Job viii. 7 : " Though thy beginning was small,...

...suffering. The end with Job was not simply deliverance from all his sorrows, but also abundant compensation. The Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning." III. THE HUMAN CONDITION. " The patience of Job." In order that suffering and pity may be reconciled,...

...stricken with loathsome disease, might have imagined, "All these things are against me;" but no, " the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning," giving him " twice as much as he had before." How frequently, after we have stood weeping over the...

...sons, even four generations,' and at length ' died, being old and full of days.' Thus it was that ' the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning.'* * Job, xlii. 10-17. I was once visiting the sick-bed of a miserable old man, an unbeliever, and a scoffer...

...to that which he had held before his trials. " The Lord gave Job twice as much as " he had before. So the Lord blessed the latter " end of Job more than the beginning ;" but, as his sons and daughters were not dead, but sleeping, he had only seven more sons and three...

...had brought upon him. And they every one gave him a kesitah, and every one a gold ring. (12.) Thus the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning ; for he had fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand...

...had brought upon him. And they every one gave him a kesitah, and every one a gold ring. (12.) Thus the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning ; for he had fourteen thousand sheep and six I hon sand camels, and a thousand yok; of oxen, and a...

...22nd; on which occasion — referring to a text I had recently spoken from, namely, Job xlii. 12, " So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning " — I said that the ancient patriarch, in chapter xxix., has described how he was in the beginning....

...of hie untried faith, are the words ' Our Father who art in Heaven,' while above the final plate, * So the Lord Blessed the Latter End of Job more than the Beginning,' are the words ' Great and Marvellous are Thy Works, Lord God Almighty, Just and True are Thy Ways,...