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 make him 70 at the time of his calamity, which, added to 140 in the Hebrew text, make up 210-little more than the age (205) of Terah, father of Abraham, perhaps his contemporary. Man's length of life gradually shortened, until it reached threescore and ten in Moses' time (Psalms 90:10).
Sons' sons - a proof of divine favour (Genesis 1:23; Psalms 128:6; Proverbs 17:6, "Children's children are the crown of old men").