Job 42:14

But the Lord also gave Job twice as much as he had before, because the book could not end without a witness to God's goodness even in outward things. It is not yet the time for carefully setting right all that is crooked, or for remembering every good and righteous deed. Still, the Lord does not let His saint go without a proof of His interest and His blessing. Job therefore received even then this testimony of what God is. He did not forget the man who had passed through such a storm of trial... But Job only held fast to God because God held fast to Job. That was the real root of the matter. It is grace after all that gives and keeps integrity.

The names of the daughters are given, no doubt with divine significance. Jemima, "a dove"; Keziah, "cassia"; Keren-happuch, "a horn of paint," or adornment. These are the fruit of Job's trials. The dove, suggesting the gentleness and love of the bird of sorrow. Cassia, telling of the fragrance that has come from his bruising; and the horn of cosmetic, of the "beauty for ashes" that is now his. Love, fragrance, beauty — these come out of our sorrows. Truly there are no daughters so fair as these.

Youngest daughter of Job after his restoration to prosperity. Job 42:14. The meaning of the name is disputed. The Septuagint renders it "horn of plenty."

The names of the three daughters are given. Jemimah (a dove); Keziah (cassia); Keren-happuch (flashes of glory). Such were the blessed results of Job's experience, expressed by these names. Purified and humble like the dove; cassia, which is fragrance, worship and adoration; and the flashes and splendour of glory.

The bark of an aromatic plant resembling cinnamon, the Arabian cassia. It was used in the holy anointing oil; and, with myrrh and aloes, will perfume the garments of Christ as King. It was one of the articles of merchandise of Tyre. Ex. 30:24; Ps. 45:8; Ezek. 27:19.

The cinnamon, calamus and cassia are all products from the bark of a tree or from a plant that were ground to a very fine powder. This painful process produces rich fragrances. All speak of the sufferings of our Lord and to a lesser degree of our deep experiences with Him in life's pathway.

As far as temporal things were concerned, Job in the end received, under God's good hand, double what he had lost. Seven sons and three daughters came to lighten his home — surely an implication that the ones he had lost did not die like the beasts of the field. In the end he had double: ten in heaven and ten on earth. But spiritually and morally, what a triumph for God, and what an untold blessing for Job — a blessing beyond words.

So if Job lost his sons and his daughters in death, he now received them, as it were, in resurrection. Their very names are full of meaning. The first he called Jemima, which means "handsome as the day." The second he called Kezia — cassia, one of the sweet perfumes of the sanctuary. And the name of the third, Keren-happuch, means "child of beauty."

This does not mean, as some suppose, that they were not new sons and daughters, and that the restoration was one in resurrection. Such a view cannot stand. The sons and daughters were born to him.