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Job’s Integrity Is RewardedThe Watchtower—1998 | May 1
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But Job was not to gloat over their humiliation. Indeed, Jehovah required that he pray in behalf of his accusers. Job did just as he was instructed, and for this he was blessed. First, Jehovah cured his dreaded disease. Then, Job’s brothers, sisters, and former associates came to comfort him, “and they proceeded each one to give him a piece of money and each one a gold ring.”a Moreover, Job “came to have fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels and a thousand spans of cattle and a thousand she-asses.”b And Job’s wife was evidently reconciled with him. In time, Job was blessed with seven sons and three daughters, and he lived to see four generations of his offspring.—Job 42:10-17.
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Job’s Integrity Is RewardedThe Watchtower—1998 | May 1
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a The value of “a piece of money” (Hebrew, qesi·tahʹ) cannot be determined. But “a hundred pieces of money” bought a sizable tract of land in Jacob’s day. (Joshua 24:32) Therefore, “a piece of money” from each visitor was likely more than a token gift.
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