Job 42:16

Job lived 140 years after this, seeing his children, and grandchildren, in fact 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

15Nowhere in all the land were there women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and Job gave them the same inheritance as their brothers.

17Then Job died at an old age, having lived a very full life.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:7Abraham lived to be 175

Genesis 47:28Jacob lived in Egypt for seventeen years, so he lived in total 147 years.

Genesis 50:26Joseph died when he was 110. After his body was embalmed, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Joshua 24:29Later, after all this, Joshua, son of Nun, servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and ten.

Psalms 128:6May you see your children's children. May Israel be at peace!

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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