Job 42:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

In all the land were no women found so fair— Bishop Warburton, upon his allegorical plan, supposes, that as Job's wife was to represent the idolatrous wives, so the daughters in the allegory are to stand for the daughters of Israel; and to this end are described as beauties; nay, and fortunes too, for their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. "In short, the writer's desire was to recommend them as the most desirable parties; that so the men for the future might be induced to match at home, and not wander abroad for strange wives." This is the learned writer's notion. "Now," says Mr. Peters, "I would here desire to be allowed only one reasonable postulatum; namely, that the sons of Job may be supposed to represent the sons of Israel, as well as the daughters their sex; and then let him tell us why there is so wide a disproportion between them; for the sons of Israel seven, and the daughters three, does not amount to half a wife a-piece; and, I doubt, their beauty and their fortunes would scarcely be thought consideration enough, to make amends for that deficiency. The men would still have but too good an excuse to look out for strange wives."