Job 42:16

But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, all the way to the fourth generation, and he died an old man and full of days.

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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, in the whole world, there were not found women so beautiful as the daughters of Job. And so their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:7Now the days of Abraham’s life were one hundred and seventy-five years.

Genesis 47:28And he lived in it seventeen years. And all the days of his life that passed were one hundred and forty-seven years.

Joshua 24:29And after these things, Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.

Psalms 128:6Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can be pulled up:

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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