Job 42 · Verse 16

Job 42:16

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

Job 42:16 in other translations

BSBAfter this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
WEBAfter this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
ASVAnd after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
YLTAnd Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;
DARBYAnd Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
BBEAnd after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
WebsterAfter this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

What does Job 42:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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 threescore and ten in Moses' time (Psa 90:10). sons' sons--a proof of divine favor (Ge 50:23; Psa 128:6; Pr 17:6).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 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 εζησεν, διακοσια τεσσαρακοντα; "And all the years that Job lived were two hundred and forty." This makes him one hundred years of age when his trial commenced. Coverdale has, After this lyved Job forty yeares, omitting the hundred. So also in Becke's Bible, 1549. From the age, as marked down in the Hebrew text, we can infer nothing relative to the time when Job lived. See the subscription at the end of the Arabic.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 42:10-17

In the beginning of this book we had Job's patience under his troubles, for an example; here, for our encouragement to follow that example, we have his happy end. His troubles began in Satan's malice, which God restrained; his restoration began in God's mercy, which Satan could not oppose. Mercy did not return when Job was disputing with his friends, but when he was praying for them. God is served and pleased with…

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Job 42:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיְחִ֤יvay.Chiand he livedH2421
אִיּוֹב֙'i.yOvJobH347
אַֽחֲרֵי\־'a.cha.rei-afterH310
זֹ֔אתZotthisH2063
מֵאָ֥הme.'Ahone hundredH3967
וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםve.'ar.ba.'Imand fortyH705
שָׁנָ֑הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141
וַיִּרְאֶ֗הvai.yarand he sawH7200
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בָּנָיו֙ba.Navchildren hisH1121
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
בְּנֵ֣יbe.Nei[the] children ofH1121
בָנָ֔יוva.Navchildren hisH1121
אַרְבָּעָ֖ה'ar.ba.'AhfourH702
דֹּרֽוֹת\׃do.RotgenerationsH1755

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 42:16

  • 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 25:7

    And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

  • Genesis 47:28

    And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

  • 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.

  • Joshua 24:29

    And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

  • Genesis 11:32

    And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

  • Psalms 90:10

    The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

  • Genesis 35:28

    And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

  • Deuteronomy 34:7

    And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
After.How long he had lived before his afflictions we cannot tell: if we could rely upon the LXX., all would be plain, which adds here, [ta de panta ete ezesen diakosia tessarakonta.] "And all the years he lived were two hundred and forty."
an.
Ge 11:32; 25:7; 35:28; 47:28; 50:26; De 34:7; Jos 24:29; Ps 90:10
and saw.
Ge 50:23; Ps 128:6; Pr 17:6

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Context

  • Job 42:15

    And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

  • Job 42:16

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

  • Job 42:17

    So Job died, being old and full of days.

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Job 42:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y después de esto vivió Job ciento y cuarenta años, y vió á sus hijos, y á los hijos de sus hijos, hasta la cuarta generación.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et, après cela, Job vécut 140 ans, et il vit ses fils, et les fils de ses fils, quatre générations.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Hiob lebte nach diesem 140 Jahre; und er sah seine Kinder und seine Kindeskinder, vier Geschlechter.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Vixit autem Job post hæc centum quadraginta annis, et vidit filios suos, et filios filiorum suorum usque ad quartam generationem: et mortuus est senex, et plenus dierum.