Job 42:16

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Summary

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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And saw

Genesis 50:23

Psalm 128:6

Proverbs 17:6

General references

Psalm 37:37

Bible References

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Terah lived two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

The days of Abraham’s life were a hundred and seventy-five years.

Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the length of Jacob’s life was a hundred and forty-seven years.

So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Although Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eyesight was not dim, nor his natural strength abated.

It happened after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, at the age of a hundred and ten years.

The days of our life are seventy years—
Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;
Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,
For it is soon gone and we fly away.

And saw

Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children; also the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born and raised on Joseph’s knees.

Indeed, may you see your [family perpetuated in your] children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!

Grandchildren are the crown of aged men,
And the glory of children is their fathers [who live godly lives].

General references

Mark the blameless man [who is spiritually complete], and behold the upright [who walks in moral integrity];
There is a [good] future for the man of peace [because a life of honor blesses one’s descendants].