Job 42:16

Updated Bible Version

And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Hebrew Names Version
After this Iyov lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.

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

English Standard Version
And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

New Century Version
After this, Job lived one hundred forty years. He lived to see his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.

New English Translation
After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Amplified Bible
After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

New American Standard Bible
After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

World English Bible
After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And after this liued Iob an hundreth and fourtie yeres, and sawe his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, euen foure generations.

Legacy Standard Bible
And after this, Job lived 140 years and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

Berean Standard Bible
After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Contemporary English Version
Job lived for another one hundred forty years—long enough to see his great-grandchildren have children of their own—

Complete Jewish Bible
After this, Iyov lived 140 years, long enough to see his sons and grandsons, four generations.

Darby Translation
And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Job lived for 140 years more. He lived to see his children, his grandchildren, his great-grandchildren, and his great-great-grandchildren.

George Lamsa Translation
After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his sons and his sons sons, even four generations.

Good News Translation
Job lived a hundred and forty years after this, long enough to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Lexham English Bible
And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his grandsons for four generations.

Literal Translation
After this Job lived a hundred and forty years. And he saw his sons, and his grandsons, even four generations.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After this lyued Iob xl. yeares, so that he sawe his children, & his childers children vnto the fourth generacion.

American Standard Version
And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Bible in Basic English
And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

King James Version (1611)
After this liued Iob an hundred and fourtie yeeres, and saw his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, euen foure generations.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After this liued Iob an hundred and fourtie yeres: so that he sawe his children, and his childrens children into the fourth generation.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons’ sons, the fourth generation.

English Revised Version
And after this Job lived an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Joob lyuede aftir these betyngis an hundrid and fourti yeer, and `siy hise sones, and the sones of hise sones, `til to the fourthe generacioun;

Webster's Bible Translation
After this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.

New King James Version
After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations.

New Living Translation
Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.

New Life Bible
After this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, his grandsons, and even their sons.

New Revised Standard
After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children's children, four generations.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Job lived, after this, a hundred and forty years, - and saw his sons and his sons' sons, four generations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, unto the fourth generation,

Revised Standard Version
And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

Young's Literal Translation
And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;

THE MESSAGE
Job lived on another 140 years, living to see his children and grandchildren—four generations of them! Then he died—an old man, a full life.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ And Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before. ¹¹ Then there came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those that had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold. ¹² So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys. ¹³ He had also seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ And he called the name of the first, Jemimah: and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. 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 brothers. ¹⁶ And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations. ¹⁷ So Job died, being old and full of days.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure 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, פב הו נבםפב ופח וזחףום היבךןףיב פוףףבסבךןםפב. "And all the years he lived were two hundred and forty."

an: Genesis 11:32, Genesis 25:7, Genesis 35:28, Genesis 47:28, Genesis 50:26, Deuteronomy 34:7, Joshua 24:29, Psalms 90:10

and saw: Genesis 50:23, Psalms 128:6, Proverbs 17:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:9 - have not Genesis 48:1 - his two sons Job 5:26 - in a full age Job 14:14 - all the days Job 17:1 - my days Job 29:18 - multiply Job 33:25 - return Psalms 107:41 - maketh

Cross-References

Genesis 42:11
We are all sons of one man; we are true men, your slaves are no spies.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years,.... Not after he had arrived to the height of his prosperity; not after the birth of his children, and they were grown up, and had their portions given them, which must take in a considerable number of years; but after his afflictions were over, and his prosperity began: and if his years were doubled, as some think, though that is not certain, then he must be seventy years of age when he was so sorely afflicted and must live to the age of two hundred and ten; which is the common notion of the Jewish writers z: however, he must be fifty or sixty years of age at that time, since his former children were grown up and were for themselves; and it is said a, his afflictions continued seven years. So that it is not at all improbable that he lived to be about two hundred years of age; and which was a singular blessing of God to him, if you compare his age with that of Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Joshua, between the two former and the two latter he may be supposed to live;

and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations; Joseph saw but the third, Job the fourth, he was a great-great-grandfather. This was no doubt a pleasant sight to him, to see such a numerous offspring descending from him; and especially if they were walking in the ways of God, as probably they were, since no doubt he would take all the care of their education that in him lay. This is the great blessing promised to the Messiah, the antitype of Job, Isaiah 53:10; see also Isaiah 59:21.

z T. Bava Bathra, fol. 15. 1. Seder Olam Rabba, c. 3. a Suidas in voce ιωβ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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, however, has undertaken to determine this, but on what authority is unknown. They render this verse, “And Job lived after this affliction an hundred and seventy years: so that all the years that he lived were two hundred and forty.” According to this, his age would have been seventy when his afflictions came upon him; but this is a mere conjecture. Why the authors of that version have added thirty years to the time which he lived after his calamities, making it an hundred and seventy instead of an hundred and forty as it is in the Hebrew text, is unknown. The supposition that he was about seventy years of age when his calamities came upon him, is not an unreasonable one.

He had a family of ten children, and his sons were grown so as to have families of their own, Job 1:4. It should be remembered, also, that in the patriarchal times, when people lived to a great age, marriages did not occur at so early a period of life as they do now. In this book, also, though the age of Job is not mentioned, yet the uniform representation of him is that of a man of mature years; of large experience and extended observation; of one who had enjoyed high honor and a wide reputation as a sage and a magistrate; and when these circumstances are taken into the account, the supposition of the translators of the Septuagint, that he was seventy years old when his afflictions commenced, is not improbable. If so, his age at his death was two hundred and ten years. The age to which he lived is mentioned as remarkable, and was evidently somewhat extraordinary. It is not proper, therefore, to assume that this was the ordinary length of human life at that time, though it would be equally improper to suppose that there was anything like miracle in the case.

The fair interpretation is, that he reached the period of old age which was then deemed most honorable; that he was permitted to arrive at what was then regarded as the outer limit of human life; and if this be so, it is not difficult to determine “about” the time when he lived. The length of human life, after the flood, suffered a somewhat regular decline, until, in the time of Moses, it was fixed at about threescore years and ten, Psalms 90:10. The following instances will show the regularity of the decline, and enable us, with some degree of probability, to determine the period of the world in which Job lived. Noah lived 950 years; Shem, his son, 600; Arphaxad, his son, 438 years; Salah, 433 years; Eber, 464; Peleg, 239; Reu, 239; Serug, 230; Nahor, 248; Terah, 205; Abraham, 175; Isaac, 180; Jacob, 147; Joseph, 110; Moses, 120; Joshua, 110. Supposing, then, the age of Job to have been somewhat unusual and extraordinary, it would fall in with the period somewhere in the time between Terah and Jacob; and if so, he was probably contemporary with the most distinguished of the patriarchs.

And saw his sons,... - To see one’s posterity advancing in years and honor, and extending themselves in the earth, was regarded as a signal honor and a proof of the divine favor in the early ages. Genesis 48:11, “and Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; and lo, God hath also showed me thy seed.” Proverbs 17:6, “children’s children are the crown of old men.” Psalms 128:6, “yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children;” compare Psalms 127:5; Genesis 12:2; Genesis 17:5-6; Job 5:25; and the notes at Isaiah 53:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 42:16. 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.