Job 42:4

But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: 1 And I will ask thee, and do thou teach me. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

3For who is he that hides counsel from thee? 1 Or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? 1 And who will tell me what I knew not, 1 Great and wonderful things which I understood not? 1

5I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; 1 But now mine eye has seen thee. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 18:30And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I shall speak? but if there be found there thirty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the thirty’s sake.

Job 40:7Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; 1 And I will ask thee, and do thou answer me. 1

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 →

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