After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
Job 42:16 stands at the close of the record of God rewarding Job for holding fast his loyalty through intense suffering that did not come upon him because he had followed a sinful course. It belongs likewise to the account of God's restoration of a man who had lost his children and his earthly possessions and had suffered greatly in body and soul. That restoration shows that Job was not forsaken in his affliction, but was remembered and cared for by God. In God's own time Job was lifted up out of his humiliation and received even greater favor and blessing than he had enjoyed before.
Job 42:16 stands at the close of the record of God rewarding Job for holding fast his loyalty through intense suffering that did not come upon him because he had followed a sinful course. It belongs likewise to the account of God's restoration of a man who had lost his children and his earthly possessions and had suffered greatly in body and soul. That restoration shows that Job was not forsaken in his affliction, but was remembered and cared for by God. In God's own time Job was lifted up out of his humiliation and received even greater favor and blessing than he had enjoyed before.