Job 42:16

And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;

Young's Literal Translation

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 have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

17and Job dieth, aged and satisfied [with] days.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:7And these [are] the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, a hundred and seventy and five years;

Genesis 47:28and Jacob liveth in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, are an hundred and forty and seven years.

Genesis 50:26And Joseph dieth, a son of an hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt.

Joshua 24:29And it cometh to pass, after these things, that Joshua son of Nun, servant of Jehovah, dieth, a son of a hundred and ten years,

Psalms 128:6And see the sons of thy sons! Peace 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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