Job 42:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 42:16

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... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 42:16-17

Job 42:16-17. After this Job lived a hundred and forty years Some conjecture that he was seventy when his troubles came upon him: if so, his age was double, as his other possessions. And saw his sons, and his sons’ sons Though his children were not doubled to him, yet in his children’s children they were more than doubled. As God appointed to Adam another seed instead of that which was slain, Genesis 4:25, so he did to Job with advantage. God has ways to repair the losses, and balance the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 42:7-17

God exalts Job (42:7-17)The three friends, in spite of the truths mixed in with their speeches, are now declared wrong. Job, in spite of his rash speech and irreverent protest, is now declared right. In accusing Job of great sin, the three friends had not spoken the truth, whereas Job, in claiming to be upright and not guilty of great sin, is now proved to be truthful. The friends’ theory that suffering is always the result of personal sin is proved wrong, whereas Job’s desire for a just God is... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 42:16

an hundred and forty years: i.e. from 1656 to 1516. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 42:16

"And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days."The importance of Job is again apparent in this narrative, because his age corresponded to that of the patriarchs, such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This fact alone lifts him out of the category of ordinary persons, and endows this narrative of his life with special significance. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 42:16

Job 42:16. After this Job lived an hundred and forty years— Mr. Le Clerc has urged, as an argument that this book is parabolical, that Job, according to this account, must have lived above two hundred years, and that this length of life will suit no time assigned for Job's existence. If, with Grotius, we say he lived while the Israelites wandered in the desert, the lives of men were then much shorter than two hundred years: if with others, that he lived soon after the Flood, the lives of men... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 42:16

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 (Psalms 90:10). sons' sons—a proof of divine favor (Genesis 50:23;... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 42:7-17

III. EPILOGUE 42:7-17The book closes as it opened, with a prose explanation by the inspired human writer. He gave us important information about Job’s friends (Job 42:7-9) and then Job’s fortunes (Job 42:10-17).". . . Satan and Job’s wife (who are prominent in the prologue as agents of evil who try to get Job to curse God) are intentionally omitted in the epilogue. This deliberate omission emphasizes a major teaching of the book, namely, that man’s relationship to God is not a ’give-and-get’... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 42:10-17

B. Job’s Fortune 42:10-17Notice that God began to prosper Job again after he interceded for his friends (Job 42:10), not just after he repented. His willingness to pray for his enemies showed the genuineness of the transformation that had taken place in his heart. He no longer felt antagonistic toward God but accepting of his enemies (cf. Matthew 6:15).The Lord increased all that Job possessed twofold (Job 42:10).ItemBeforeAfterTotalSheep7,0007,00014,000Camels3,0003,0006,000Yoke of... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 42:7-17

The Epilogue7-17. These vv. describe the happy ending to Job’s trials and his restoration to prosperity. It is a sequel in full accord with the religious ideas of the Hebrews. With no clear idea of a future state, where compensation will be found for the ills of this world, long life and earthly happiness were regarded as the only evidence of God’s favour and approval. The feeling that the happy ending spoils the effect is modern, but incorrect. For it would have made a very bad impression on... read more