Job 42:16

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to 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

15In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

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

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Cross References

Genesis 25:7These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

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

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

Joshua 24:29After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.

Psalms 128:6Yes, may you 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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