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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 42:11 - 42:11
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It was Job’s complaint in his misery that his “brethren,” were “estranged” from him (Job 19:13); these now return with the return of his prosperity (Pro 14:20; Pro 19:6, Pro 19:7); the true friend loveth at all times (Pro 17:17; Pro 18:24). “Swallow friends leave in the winter and return with the spring” [Henry].
eat bread - in token of friendship (Psa 41:9).
piece of money - Presents are usual in visiting a man of rank in the East, especially after a calamity (2Ch 32:23). Hebrew, kesita. Magee translates “a lamb” (the medium of exchange then before money was used), as it is in Margin of Gen 33:19; Jos 24:32. But it is from the Arabic kasat, “weighed out” [Umbreit], not coined; so Gen 42:35; Gen 33:19; compare with Gen 23:15, makes it likely it was equal to four shekels; Hebrew kashat, “pure,” namely, metal. The term, instead of the usual “shekel,” etc., is a mark of antiquity.
earring - whether for the nose or ear (Gen 35:4; Isa 3:21). Much of the gold in the East, in the absence of banks, is in the shape of ornaments.