Job 42:6

Therefore I ◄am ashamed of/withdraw► what I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry for what I said.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

In Context

5I had heard about you previously, but now it is as though I have seen you with my own eyes.

7After Yahweh said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz, “I am angry with you and your two friends, Bildad and Zophar, because what my servant Job said about me was right/true, but what you have spoken about me was not right/true.

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:27After Elijah finished talking to Ahab, Ahab tore his clothes to show that he was sorry for all the sins that he had committed. He put on rough clothes that were made from sacks, and he refused to eat anything. He even wore those rough clothes made from sacks when he slept, to show that he was sorry.

Esther 4:1When Mordecai found out about those letters, he was so anguished that he tore his clothes and put on rough sackcloth and threw ashes over himself. Then he went into the city, crying very loudly.

Job 9:31he would still throw me into a filthy pit; as a result it would be as though even my clothes would detest me.

Job 40:3Then Job replied to Yahweh,

Psalms 51:17The sacrifice that you really want is for people to be truly humble and sorry for having sinned; O God, you will not refuse that kind of sacrifice.

Isaiah 58:5You act as though [IRO] you humble yourselves [RHQ] by bowing your heads like [SIM] the tops of reeds bend when the wind blows, and you wear [RHQ] rough clothes and cover your heads with ashes like people do when they are grieving. That is what you do when you are fasting, but do you really think [RHQ] that will please me?

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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