Job 42:16

And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

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In The King James Version

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

In Context

15And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.

17And Job came to his end, old and full of days.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:7Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.

Genesis 47:28And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

Genesis 50:26So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

Joshua 24:29Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.

Psalms 128:6May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

Matthew Henry on Job 42:11-17

Job's Renewed Prosperity; The Death of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of… Read the whole commentary →

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