Job 42:16

And after this liued Iob an hundreth and fourtie yeres, and sawe his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, euen foure generations.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 lande were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob, and their father gaue them inheritaunce among their brethren.

17So Iob dyed, being old, and full of dayes.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:7And this is the age of Abrahams life, which he liued, an hundreth seuentie and fiue yeere.

Genesis 47:28Moreouer, Iaakob liued in the lande of Egypt seuenteene yeeres, so that the whole age of Iaakob was an hundreth fourtie and seuen yeere.

Genesis 50:26So Ioseph died, when he was an hundreth and ten yere olde: and they enbaumed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.

Joshua 24:29And after these things Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruaunt of the Lord died, being an hundreth and ten yeeres olde.

Psalms 128:6Yea, thou shalt see thy childrens children, and peace vpon 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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