17So Job died, being old and full of days.
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Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
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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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