Job 42:16

After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Majority Standard Bible

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

15No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

17And so Job died, old and full of years.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:7Abraham lived a total of 175 years.

Genesis 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

Genesis 50:26So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.

Joshua 24:29Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

Psalms 128:6that you may see your children’s children. Peace be 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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