16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
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Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-17)You have heard of the patience of Job (says the apostle, Jas. 5:11) and have seen the end of the Lord , that is, what end the Lord, at length, put to his troubles. In the beginning of this book we had Job’s patience under his troubles, for an example; here, in the close, for our encouragement to follow that example, we have the happy issue of his troubles and the prosperous condition to which he w…
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