As is commonly observed, Job 42:10 depicts Job’s restoration with the phrase שׁב את־שׁבית [שׁבות] which is dominantly associated with corporate return from exile elsewhere in the Old Testament. Building on this observation, this paper proposes that the Joban Epilogue contains numerous other allusions to the ‘return from exile’ motif, especially as that motif is evident in biblical prophetic literature. Salient allusions include God as the ‘comforter’ of his people (Job 42:6), the concurrence of Job’s prayer and restoration (42:10), Job’s receiving ‘double’ (42:10), his transferral from shame to honor (42:11), the way in which his ending state surpasses his former state (42:12), and potentially the focus on his daughters as co-inheritors with his sons (42:14–15). The cumulative force of these allusions suggests that the Joban author deliberately casts the eponymous protagonist’s journey as it culminates in chapter 42 as a ‘return from exile’ experience. The strength of this proposal lies in its explanatory power, able to account for and synthesise numerous textual details within the laconic depiction of Job’s restoration, as well as its consequent theological implications. Regarding the latter, if the Joban author depicts Job’s restoration with exilic overtones, such would suggest reading Job’s Epilogue flourishing as an expression of divine generosity more than divine justice. Further, this exilic milieu may make more sense of the connection that the Epistle of James draws between the Joban Epilogue and Eschaton (Jas 5:11), as a theological extrapolation which is latent in and native to Job 42.