More on that fourth generation

We might observe, however, that the fourth generation, when they live in the patriarch’s house, are very young children. By the time those children grow up and begin doing things, the patriarch will be dead, Thus the fourth generation is the first one that the patriarch is not going to see into adulthood, and anything this generation achieves will happen after the patriarch is gone, even under ideal conditions (compare Job 42:16, where Job “saw his children and their children to the fourth generation”).— The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest, 60