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Job 42:10
10 And the LORD [Yahovah] turned [shuwb] the captivity [shabuwth] [shabuwth] of Job ['Iyowb], when he prayed [palal] for his friends [rea`]: also the LORD [Yahovah] gave [yacaph] Job ['Iyowb] twice as much [mishneh] as he had before. KJV-Interlinear
10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold. NASB
Captivity, is a reference to one who has been taken from his home and homeland, and forced into slavery or captivity, in a foreign and dangerous land.
Sin is our captivity, and the environment outside of Gods embrace is the foreign and dangerous land in which there is only pain, and suffering, and bitterness, and loss, and failure.
In this book, Job lived this life of suffering, as all of humanity does when outside of Gods will.
But through the grace of God and the work of the Savior, Jesus Christ, Job was restored from that foreign land, symbolically speaking, to his former home of safety, and truth, and security, and prosperity. A life within the spiritual realm of Gods will.
The players here are Job, the representative priest, or go-between, between man and God, and the three friends, who had slipped out of the grace of God through their own human views.
The men brought their offering to Job, and set about presenting the offering to God (the Father). Job prayed, to the Father, for the acceptance of the offering, and token, and symbol of the work of the Son, the Savior, Jesus Christ.
All prayer is directed to the Father and to no one, and to nothing else. Since the offering represents the work of Christ, the Father accepts the offering, for He accepts no other offering, which is not representative of the work of Christ.
Job was restored, progressively over the coming years, to his former health, prosperity, and family. Obviously, his health would have returned relatively quickly. Probably in a matter of days, his fever, his sores and skin wounds, his aches and pains, and such, would have faded away. He obviously recovered enough, immediately, to be able to perform the sacrifices of his friends.
Once Gods mandates had been complied with, then the blessings began to flow. Job was in full compliance and therefore his blessings were doubled. Over the years he would have children during the normal course of his life and marriage with his wife. I presume that you know how that sort of thing works.
As for the rest of his wealth, probably many things worked together toward his acquisition of his greater wealth, during the course of the next several decades of his life.
But, no matter how long it took, his recovered wealth and its doubling, began immediately after his prayer at the offering presented by his friends.
It was Jobs compliance, and not anything which his friends did, that brought Gods good favor to Job.
His friends continued in their life with little or no change. They complied with Gods mandates, certainly, but they had to be ordered to comply. Job voluntarily submitted himself to Gods will, without having to be ordered.
His blessings were magnified accordingly.
