Job 42:4
Please hear, and I speak; [You said], I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
In Context
5By the hearing of the ear I heard You, || And now my eye has seen You.
Cross References
Genesis 18:30And he says, “Please let it not be displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: perhaps there are found there thirty?” And He says, “I do not do [it], if I find there thirty.”
Job 40:7“Now gird your loins as a man, || I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
Matthew Henry on Job 42:2-7
Job's Humble Confession. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered the Lord , and said, 2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and… Read the whole commentary →