And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations.
You have heard of the patience of Job (says the apostle, Jam 5:11) and have seen the end of the Lord, that is, what end the Lord, at length, put to his troubles. In the beginning of this book we had Job's patience under his troubles, for an example; here, in the close, for our encouragement to follow that example, we have the happy issue...
Commenting on Job 42:10-17
So Job died,.... As every man does, though he lived so long, and as Methuselah the oldest man did, Gen 5:27; and though a good man, the best of men die as well as others: so Job died, as a good man, in the Lord, in faith and hope of eternal life and happiness; and so he died in all his outward prosperity and happiness...
God rebuked the three friends because they spoke falsely to justify their unkindness, using wrong arguments to defend themselves. Job had denied their theory that calamity always proves peculiar guilt, and he was right about them, though he fell into his own extreme by almost denying all guilt, which he has now repented of.
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Commenting on Job 42:7-17