Job 42:17

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

So Job died, being old and full of days.

In Context

16And 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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Cross References

Genesis 15:15As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

Deuteronomy 6:2So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

Psalms 91:16With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

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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