Job Chapter 42 verse 16 Holy Bible
And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, `even' four generations.
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And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
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And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
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After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
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After this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
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After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.
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And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - After this lived Job an hundred and forty years. It has been concluded from this statement, combined with that at the close of ver. 10, that Job was exactly seventy years of age when his calamities fell upon him ('Dict. of the Bible,' vol. 1. p. 1087, note); but this is really only a conjecture, since the statement that "God added to all that had been Job's to the double," does not naturally apply to anything but his property. We may, however, fairly allow that (as Professor Lee says) he "could scarcely have been less than seventy" when his afflictions came, having then a family of ten children, who were all grown up (Job 1:4). In this case, the whole duration of his life would have been 210 years, or a little more, which cannot be regarded as incredible by those who accept the ages of the patriarchs, from Peleg to Jacob, as respectively 239, 230, 148, 205, 175, 180, and 147 years. And saw his sons, and his sons' sons; i.e. his descendants - grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Even four gone-rations. According to the Hebrew inclusive practice of reckoning, we may regard his own generation as included.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) An hundred and forty years.--The particularity of this detail forbids us to suppose that the character of Job was other than real; his great age also shows that he must be referred to the very early patriarchal times, probably anterior to Moses.
