Job 42:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 patriarchal times, probably anterior to Moses.

Job 42:16

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