She should have stayed loyal

Finding a humorous circumstance in Scripture is not difficult. Job contains another incident that may cause a smile among those of us who are over loaded with a sense of jocularity.

The situation begins with Job having:
1. A wife
2. Ten children
3. 7,000 sheep
4. 3.000 camels
5. 500 yoke of oxen
6. 500 she asses
7. A very great household

He lost:
1. The oxen and
2. Asses - “The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: - And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away;”
3. The sheep - “The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep”
4. The camels - “The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away,”
5. His ten children - “Thy sons and thy daughters... are dead”
6. Most of his servants - “I only am escaped alone to tell thee.” is said four times.
7. The respect of his wife - “Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God, and die.”


At the end of the book he is given twice what he had before:
1. 2 x 7,000 = 14,000 sheep
2. 2 x 3,000 = 6,000 camels
3. 2 x 500 = 1,000 yoke of oxen
4. 2 x 500 = 1,000 she asses
5. And the household needed
6. 2 x 10 = Ten more children
7. Same wife (probably)

God knows math and does not make mistakes. He is given only ten children and not twenty because humans differ from animals and his first ten kids still exist, only not here but eternally. In his new life he had twenty children, ten in Paradise and ten on earth.

The amusing part of this is his wife. The Bible does not say he got a new wife. His disloyal wife had to bear ten more children.