Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 42:16

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 42:16 - 42:16

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 42:16 - 42:16

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42:1 - 42:1
42:2 - 42:2
42:3 - 42:3
42:4 - 42:4
42:5 - 42:5
42:6 - 42:6
42:7 - 42:7
42:8 - 42:8
42:9 - 42:9
42:10 - 42:10
42:11 - 42:11
42:12 - 42:12
42:13 - 42:13
42:14 - 42:14
42:15 - 42:15
42:16 - 42:16
42:17 - 42:17

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 (Psa 90:10).

sons’ sons - a proof of divine favor (Gen 50:23; Psa 128:6; Pro 17:6).