Job 42:4

But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

5I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now my eye has seen you.

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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 40:7Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.

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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