Job 42:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 50:23 : 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.
  • Ps 128:6 : 6 May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.
  • Prov 17:6 : 6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.
  • Gen 50:26 : 26 So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.
  • Deut 34:7 : 7 And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become clouded, or his natural force become feeble.
  • Josh 24:29 : 29 Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.
  • Ps 90:10 : 10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
  • Gen 11:32 : 32 And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.
  • Gen 25:7 : 7 Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.
  • Gen 35:28 : 28 And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.
  • Gen 47:28 : 28 And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

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  • 17 And Job came to his end, old and full of days.

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    12 And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

    13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.

    14 And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch;

    15 And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.

  • 2 And he had seven sons and three daughters.

  • Gen 5:4-5
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    4 And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

    5 And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.

  • 16 And after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:

  • Gen 11:15-17
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    15 And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

    16 And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:

    17 And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:

  • 1 And Job again took up the word and said,

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    18 And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:

    19 And Jared went on living after the birth of Enoch for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

    20 And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to his end.

  • 1 And Job again took up the word and said,

  • 26 And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters:

  • 22 Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

  • 6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

  • 10 And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

  • 21 And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

  • 28 And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

  • 1 Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

  • 6 Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.

  • 1 And Job made answer and said,

  • 1 And Job said in answer to the Lord,

  • 3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

  • 13 And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,

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    4 His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.

    5 And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

  • 28 And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.

  • 4 One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.

  • 15 I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

  • 25 And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:

  • 7 Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.

  • 1 And Job made answer and said,

  • 4 Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

  • 2 Job made answer and said,

  • 28 And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;

  • 6 You will give the king long life; and make his years go on through the generations.

  • 6 May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

  • 7 And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

  • 9 So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

  • 13 And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: