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 least part of his happiness. Length of days is a piece of Wisdom's wages, Proverbs 3:16. Pliny tells of one Xenophilus, who lived 105 years without sickness (lib. vii. cap. 5). And what a mercy ευγηρια, or a good old age, is, hath been before noted. See Job 5:26. For a short braid of adversity Job had a hundred and forty years' health and prosperity; like as Joseph for his thirteen years of slavery and imprisonment, had fourscore years' liberty, prosperity, and preferment. Who would not serve thee, O King of nations?
And saw his sons] Who doubtless were good and towardly (though nothing is said of them) agreeable to their education, and answerable to Job's former children, Job 1:2 .
And his sons' sons] To his great joy's increase.
Even four generations] Joseph saw but three, Genesis 50:23. If God deny this happiness to any of his, yet he hath promised them a name in his house better than of sons and nephews, Isaiah 56:5 .