Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 42:16
After this, &c. — Some conjecture, that he was seventy when his trouble came. If so his age was doubled, as his other possessions.
After this, &c. — Some conjecture, that he was seventy when his trouble came. If so his age was doubled, as his other possessions.
Verse Job 42:16. _AFTER THIS LIVED JOB A HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS_] How long he had lived before his afflictions, we cannot tell. If we could rely on the _Septuagint_, all would be plain, who add here...
AFTER THIS JOB LIVED AN HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS - As his age at the time his calamities commenced is not mentioned, it is of course impossible to determine how old he was when he died. The Septuagint,...
VII. THE EPILOGUE: JOB'S RESTORATION AND BLESSING CHAPTER 42:7-17 _ 1. Jehovah's message to Job's friends (Job 42:7)_ 2. Job's restoration (Job 42:10) 3. The conclusion: Peace (Job 42:16)...
Job's final speech (continuation of Job 40:3). Job 42:1 is to be removed as a gloss: as are also Job 42:3 a, Job 42:4 b, which are quoted from...
AN HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS: i.e. from 1656 to 1516....
Job is restored to a prosperity double that which he formerly enjoyed; his former friends gather around him; he is again blessed with children; and dies, old and full of days....
AFTER THIS JOB LIVED AN HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS— Mr. Le Clerc has urged, as an argument that this book is parabolical, that Job, according to this account, must have lived above two hundred years, and...
B. JOB IS RESTORED TO PROSPERITY AND BLESSED WITH CHILDREN. (JOB 42:10-17) TEXT 42:10-17 10 And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much...
_AFTER THIS LIVED JOB AN HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS, AND SAW HIS SONS, AND HIS SONS' SONS, EVEN FOUR GENERATIONS._ The Septuagint make Job live 170 years after his calamity, and 240 in all. This would ma...
THE EPILOGUE 7-17. These vv. describe the happy ending to Job's trials and his restoration to prosperity. It is a sequel in full accord with the religious ideas of the Hebrews. With no clear idea of a...
Job’s life was much longer than people live today. The people in the Book of Genesis also had very long lives (Genesis chapter 5). After the flood, God said that men would not continue to live for mo...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 42 THE END OF JOB’S TROUBLE...
AN HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS. — The particularity of this detail forbids us to suppose that the character of Job was other than real; his great age also shows that he must be referred to the very early...
וַ יְחִ֤י אִיֹּוב֙ אַֽחֲרֵי ־זֹ֔את מֵאָ֥ה וְ
XXIX. EPILOGUE Job 42:7 AFTER the argument of the Divine voice from the storm the epilogue is a surprise, and many have doubted whether it is in line with the rest of the work. Did Job need these mu...
RESTORED TO RIGHT RELATIONS WITH GOD Job 42:1 In complete surrender Job bowed before God, confessing his ignorance and owning that he had spoken glibly of things which he understood not. He had retor...
Job's answer is full of the stateliness of a great submission. As he speaks the words of surrender he appears mightier in his submission than all the things into the presence of which he has been brou...
Years, in all, as Judith is said to have dwelt in the house of her husband 105 years; though it is agreed that she only lived that space of time. (Haydock) --- Authors are much divided about the lengt...
(16) After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. (17) So Job died, being old and full of days. And thus end the lives of all: like Mos...
God Speaks Job Repents I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we covered a lot of territory! 1. We finished with Elihu's speeches to Job and found that, although he was a lot more accurate in what he had to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...
AFTER THIS LIVED JOB AN HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS,.... Not after he had arrived to the height of his prosperity; not after the birth of his children, and they were grown up, and had their portions given...
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations. Ver. 16. _After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, &c._] And this was not the l...
_After this Job lived a hundred and forty years_ Some conjecture that he was seventy when his troubles came upon him: if so, his age was double, as his other possessions. _And saw his sons, and his so...
JOB VINDICATED AND RESTORED TO PROSPERITY...
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years and saw his sons and his son's sons, even four generations, a special proof of divine favor, Psalms 128:6; Proverbs 17:6....
JOBS REPENTANCE AND PRAYER (vv.1-9) Who would not be totally subdued after hearing God speak such things as He did to Job? What a change took place in Job's attitude and in his words! He was humbled...
10-17 In the beginning of this book we had Job's patience under his troubles, for an example; here, for our encouragement to follow that example, we have his happy end. His troubles began in Satan's...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Job 42:16 After H310 Job H347 lived H2421 (H8799) hundred H3967 forty H705 years H8141 saw H7200 ...
CONTENTS: Job's self-judgment, followed by new prosperity. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz, three friends. CONCLUSION: Righteousness in a man is excellent but when one becomes too much aware of their...
Job 42:5. _But now mine eye seeth thee._ I have seen thee in thy works, and heard the voice of nature. I have heard all those speeches of my friends, circumscribed in knowledge, and erroneous in judgm...
_So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job._ THE LIMITATION OF JOB’S BLESSINGS TO THIS LIFE Is there not something incongruous in the large award of temporal good, and even something unnecessary in t...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 42:7 Epilogue: The Vindication, Intercession, and Restoration of Job. The final section of the book reveals on earth what the prologue had stated: Job’s suffering was not a consequence...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 42:10__ Now that he has surrendered to God and has been reconciled with his friends, Job experiences restoration. He is still broken and bereaved, but as the restoration proceeds, his...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 42:16 Job LIVED 140 YEARS. His long life (compare Psalms 90:10) was another sign of restoration ...
NOTES Job 42:11. “_A piece of money_.” According to Gesenius and others, קשׂיִטָה (_kesitah_), from the unused root קָשַׂט = قَسَطٰ (_kasata_) to “be just or true;” whence قسْط (_Kistoon_) “balances;”...
SECTION VII.—HISTORICAL SEQUEL TO THE DIALOG EXPOSITION JOB 42:1 This concluding chapter divides into two parts. In the first part (Job 42:1) Job makes his final subm
Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from thee (Job 42:1-2). Pretty important: "I know God can do everything." Secondly, "I kno...
Deuteronomy 34:7; Genesis 11:32; Genesis 25:7; Genesis 35:28; Ge
GOD SPEAKS TO JOB Job 38:1 _to Job 42:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed on those lines....