Job 42:16

And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years: and he saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Leeser Tanakh

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 not found such handsome women as the daughters of Job in all the land; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

17Then died Job, being old and full of days.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:7And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, one hundred seventy and five years.

Genesis 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty and seven years.

Genesis 50:26So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Joshua 24:29And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, one hundred and ten years old.

Psalms 128:6And see thou thy children's children: may there be peace upon 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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