Job 42:1-6

1 Alors Job répondit à l'Éternel, et dit:
2 Je sais que tu peux tout, et qu'on ne saurait t'empêcher d'accomplir un dessein.
3 "Qui obscurcit mes plans sans science? " J'ai parlé et je ne comprenais pas; ce sont des choses trop merveilleuses pour moi, et je ne les connais point.
4 "Écoute donc et je parlerai; je t'interrogerai et tu m'instruiras. "
5 Mes oreilles avaient entendu parler de toi; mais, maintenant, mon œil t'a vu.
6 C'est pourquoi je me condamne et je me repens, sur la poussière et sur la cendre.

Job 42:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 42

This chapter contains Job's answer to the last speech of the Lord's, in which he acknowledges his omnipotence, and his certain performance of his purposes and pleasure; owns his own folly and ignorance, and confesses his sins; for which he abhorred himself, and of which he repented, Job 42:1-6; it also gives an account of the Lord's decision of the controversy between Job and his friends, blaming them and commending him above them; and ordered them to take sacrifices and go to Job and offer them, who should pray for them and be accepted, which was done, Job 42:7-9; and it closes with a relation of the great prosperity Job was restored unto, in which he lived and died, Job 42:10-17.

The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.