Job 42:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Job 42:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 17:6
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Genesis 50:23
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.
Psalms 128:6
Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Genesis 25:7
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 wa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. The Septuagint makes Job live a hundred seventy years after his calamity, and two hundred forty in all. This would make him seventy at the time of his calamity, which added to a hundred forty in Hebrew text makes up two hundred ten; a little more than the age (two hundred five) of Terah, father of Abraham, perhaps his contemporary. Man’s length of life gradually shortened, till it reached thre…