“Scripture reports God increased by half all of Job's things, except for the children. It is evident, therefore, that the length of his life was also increased by a half. If he had lived 170 years when he was delivered from that calamity, it appears that he lived for 85 years more to the end of his life, that is, for t…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 42:16
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16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
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14And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
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.