After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
Parallel translations
- WEB After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
- BSB After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
- NKJV After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations.
- NASB After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.
- NLT Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.
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Quick answer
Job lived 140 years afterward, seeing four generations of his descendants. A long, full life crowns his restoration.
Overview
Job is granted a long life in which he sees his children's children to the fourth generation, a sign of covenant blessing and peace. The doubled lifespan over a normal span echoes the abundance of God's grace upon him. Such a fruitful old age portrays the satisfying rest God gives His faithful servants after their trials.
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Cross-references · 11
- Prov 17:6Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
- Gen 50:23And 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.
- Ps 128:6Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
- Gen 50:26So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
- Gen 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
- Gen 25:7And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
- Josh 24:29And 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.
- Gen 11:32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
- Gen 35:28And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
- Ps 90:10The 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.
- Deut 34:7And 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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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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