Job 42:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and his children’s children, four generations.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his sons' sons, even to four generations.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ After this, Job lived 140 years and saw four generations of his children.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, all the way to the fourth generation, and he died an old man and full of days.

Job 42:16 Cross References

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their parents.

Psalm 128:6

May you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!

Genesis 50:23

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

Genesis 50:26

And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Genesis 47:28

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

Genesis 25:7

This is the length of Abraham’s life, one hundred seventy-five years.

Joshua 24:29

After these things Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred ten years old.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our life are seventy years or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his sight was unimpaired, and his vigor had not abated.

Genesis 35:28

Now the days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

Genesis 11:32

The days of Terah were two hundred five years, and Terah died in Haran.

Job 42:15

In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.

Job 42:17

And Job died, old and full of days.