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Job 42:16

Job 42:16
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

So Job died,.... As every man does, though he lived so long, and as Methuselah the oldest man did, Gen 5:27; and though a good man, the best of men die as well as others: so Job died, as a good man,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

After this Job lived an hundred and forty years - As his age at the time his calamities commenced is not mentioned, it is of course impossible to determine how old he was when he died. The Septuagint,…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

After this lived Job a hundred and forty years - How long he had lived before his afflictions, we cannot tell. If we could rely on the Septuagint, all would be plain, who add here, Τα δε παντα ετη…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 42:10-17

You have heard of the patience of Job (says the apostle, Jam 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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 42:10-16

Job is restored to a prosperity double that which he formerly enjoyed; his former friends gather around him; he is again blessed with children; and dies, old and full of days.