Job 42:1-6

1 And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: --

2 Thou hast known that [for] all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is [any] device:

3 `Who [is] this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

4 `Hear, I pray thee, and I -- I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.'

5 By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.

6 Therefore do I loathe [it], And I have repented on 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.