King James Version
Job 42:17 in the King James Version says “So Job died, being old and full of days.” — study this verse from Job chapter 42 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So Job died, being old and full of days.”
Job 42:17 · KJV
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“of days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
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