Giobbe 42:1-6

1 E GIOBBE rispose al Signore, e disse:
2 Io so che tu puoi tutto; E che cosa niuna che tu abbia deliberata, non può essere impedita.
3 Chi è costui, che oscura il consiglio senza scienza? Perciò, io ho dichiarata la mia opinione, Ma io non intendeva ciò ch’io diceva; Son cose maravigliose sopra la mia capacità, Ed io non le posso comprendere.
4 Deh! ascolta, ed io parlerò; Ed io ti farò delle domande, e tu insegnami.
5 Io avea con gli orecchi udito parlar di te; Ma ora l’occhio mio ti ha veduto.
6 Perciò io riprovo ciò che ho detto, e me ne pento In su la polvere, ed in su la cenere.

Giobbe 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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