Job 42:1-6

Job’s Repentance and Restoration

1 Then Job answered Yahweh and said,
2 "I know that you can do all [things], and [any] scheme from you will not be thwarted.
3 'Who [is] this darkening counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I uttered, but I did not understand; {things too wonderful for me}, but I did not know.
4 'Hear and I will speak; I will question you, then inform me.'
5 By the ear's hearing I heard [of] you, but now my eye has seen you.
6 Therefore I despise [myself] and repent in dust and ashes."

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.

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