Job 42:17
Hebrew Bible
15 Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers. 16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so Job died, old and full of days.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Job 42:17
Septuagint
15 And there were not found in comparison with Job’s daughters anyone fairer than them upon the earth under the heavens. And their father gave them an inheritance, along with their brothers. 16 And Job lived after the misfortune one hundred and seventy years, and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty, and Job saw his sons and the sons of his sons to the fourth generation. 17 And Job died an old man and full of days. 17a And it is written that he shall rise again with the ones whom the Lord shall raise up. 17b This man is described by the Syriac book as dwelling in the land of Uz on the borders of Edom and Arabia. And his name before was Jobab.
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... This passage proves significant both as a Septuagintal addition to the book of Job and as a Hellenistic Jewish interpretation of Job. On the one hand, it represents one of several additions in LXX Job, including the speech of Job's wife in 2:9, the identification of his friends as kings in 2:11, and the assertion of his resurrection in 49:17. The fact that this passage was appended to the Greek translation of Job may point to an attitude toward this text as not completely fixed in its written form ..."
Reed, Annette Yoshiko
Job as Jobab: The Interpretation of Job in LXX Job 42:17b–e
(pp. 31-55) Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 120, No. 1, 2001
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