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Job 42:16–17

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After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
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From verse 16

  1. Proverbs 17:6Rank 1 from verse 16
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    6Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

  2. Genesis 50:23Rank 2 from verse 16
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    23And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

  3. Psalms 128:6Rank 3 from verse 16
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    6Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.

  4. Genesis 25:7Rank 4 from verse 16
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    7And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

  5. Genesis 47:28Rank 5 from verse 16
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    28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

From verse 17

  1. Genesis 25:8Rank 1 from verse 17
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    8Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

  2. Genesis 15:15Rank 2 from verse 17
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    15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

  3. Job 5:26Rank 3 from verse 17
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    26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

  4. Deuteronomy 6:2Rank 4 from verse 17
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    2That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

  5. Psalms 91:16Rank 5 from verse 17
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    16With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

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Job 42:16

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after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

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lived

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of live. Sense 1: To have or continue in life; to remain alive, be restored to life, or not die. Sense 2: To dwell, abide, or continue in a place, state, relation, or manner of life. Sense 3: To subsist or be sustained by or upon what is named.

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even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

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generations

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Plural form of generation (offspring, a family line, people of one age, or the period of a lifetime).

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Job 42:17

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old

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1. Advanced in age or existing for a long time. 2. Of the stated or specified age. 3. Ancient, former, previous, or worn.

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15And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

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

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17So Job died, being old and full of days.

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