# Job 42.17

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**Book:** [Job](/codex/job/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> 15. 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. 16. And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
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> **17. So Job died, being old and full of days.** (Job 42:15-17, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> 15. In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16. After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
>
> **17. So Job died, being old and full of days.** (Job 42:15-17, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> 15. 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. 16. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
>
> **17. So Job died, being old and full of days.** (Job 42:15-17, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> 15. And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren. 16. And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;
>
> **17. and Job dieth, aged and satisfied [with] days.** (Job 42:15-17, YLT)

## Setting

- **Speaker:** _TBD_
- **Audience:** _TBD_
- **Location:** _TBD_
- **Time period:** _TBD_

## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word._

- None of the words in this verse has its own lexicon entry yet.

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## Quoted in

**Arguments and defeaters:**

- [Job Bet Objection Defeater](/codex/job-bet-objection-defeater/), via [Job 42.10-17](/codex/job-42-10-17/)

**Concepts:**

- [Job Bet Objection](/codex/job-bet-objection/), via [Job 42.10-17](/codex/job-42-10-17/)
- [Verses on Gods Goodness and Human Worth](/codex/verses-on-gods-goodness-and-human-worth/), via [Job 42.7-17](/codex/job-42-7-17/)

**People:**

- [Job the Patriarch](/codex/job-the-patriarch/)

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## Notes

_Your annotations._

## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.
