Commentary for Bava Batra 32:6
(בראשית ו, א) ויהי כי החל האדם לרוב על פני האדמה ובנות יולדו להם רבי יוחנן אמר רביה באה לעולם ריש לקיש אמר מריבה באה לעולם אמר ליה ריש לקיש לרבי יוחנן לדידך דאמרת רבייה באה לעולם מפני מה לא נכפלו בנותיו של איוב
He replied: Though they were not doubled in number,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'in names ');"><sup>10</sup></span> they were doubled in beauty, as it says, He also had seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Job XL, 13, 24. ');"><sup>11</sup></span>
Tosafot on Bava Batra
As it was difficult for Rashba - let Job also be counted, as we say (Bava Batra 15b), "'And the asses were feeding beside them' (Job 1:14) - this teaches that [the Holy One, Blessed be He, had Job taste something akin to the world to come." But it can be said that Job was only in one matter, [whereas] He had Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov taste from all of it.
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