Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
The Septuagint makes Job live a hundred seventy years after his calamity, and two hundred forty in all. This would make him seventy at the time of his calamity, which added to a hundred forty in Hebrew text makes up two hundred ten; a little more than the age (two hundred five) of Terah, father of Abraham, perhaps his contemporary. Man's length of life gradually shortened, till it reached threescore and ten in Moses' time (Psalms 90:10).
sons' sons—a proof of divine favor (Genesis 50:23; Psalms 128:6; Proverbs 17:6).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 42:16:
Job 8:8-9
Job 29:18
Job 42:7
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