Job 42:16

And Job lived, after this, a hundred and forty years,—and saw his sons and his sons’ sons, four generations.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 found no women so fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land,—and their father gave them an inheritance, in the midst of their brethren.

17So Job died, old and satisfied with days.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:7Now, these, are the days of the years of the life of Abraham which he lived—a hundred and seventy-five years.

Genesis 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years,—so it came to pass that the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.

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

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

Psalms 128:6And behold thou thy children’s children,—Prosperity on 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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