Job 42:4

'Hear, I pray thee, and I — I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.'

Young's Literal Translation

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

3'Who [is] this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

5By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:30And he saith, 'Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?' and He saith, 'I do [it] not, if I find there thirty.'

Job 40:7Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou 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 →

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