New American Standard Bible 2020
Job 42:6
6Therefore I retract, And I repent, sitting on dust and ashes.”
Job 42:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
- New International Version (NIV)Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.”
Context of Job 42:6
4‘Please listen, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.’ 5I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; Therefore I retract, And I repent, sitting on dust and ashes.” 7It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has. 8Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so as not to do with you as your foolishness deserves, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has.”
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עַל־כֵּ֭ן אֶמְאַ֣ס וְנִחַ֑מְתִּי עַל־עָפָ֥ר וָאֵֽפֶר׃ פRead the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 42:6
- Job 9:31Then You would plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes would loathe me.
- Job 40:3Then Job answered the Lord and said,
- Ezra 9:6and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God, for our wrongful deeds have risen above our heads, and our guilt has grown even to the heavens.
- Psalms 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, God, You will not despise.
- Isaiah 5:5So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.
- Jeremiah 31:19For after I turned back, I repented; And after I was instructed, I slapped my thigh; I was ashamed and also humiliated Because I bore the shame of my youth.’
- Ezekiel 16:63so that you may remember and be ashamed, and not open your mouth again because of your disgrace, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” the Lord God declares.
- Ezekiel 20:43And there you will remember your ways and all your deeds by which you have defiled yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evil things that you have done.
- Ezekiel 36:31Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your wrongdoings and your abominations.
- Luke 15:18I will set out and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight;
- 1 Corinthians 15:8and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.
- 1 Timothy 1:13even though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;
- James 4:7Submit therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Job 2:8And Job took a piece of pottery to scrape himself while he was sitting in the ashes.
- Job 30:19He has thrown me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.
- 1 Kings 21:27Yet it came about, when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently.
Commentaries on Job 42:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6I abhor myself - Compared with thine, my strength is weakness; my wisdom, folly; and my righteousness, impurity. "I loathe myself when thee I see; And into nothing fall." Repent - I am deeply distressed on account of the imaginations of my heart, the words of my tongue, and the acts of my life. I roll myself in the dust, and sprinkle ashes upon my head. Job is now sufficiently humbled at the feet of Jehovah; and having earnestly and piously prayed for…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Wherefore I abhor myself - I see that I am a sinner to be loathed and abhorred. Job, though he did not claim to be perfect, had yet unquestionably been unduly exalted with the conception of his own righteousness, and in the zeal of his argument, and under the excitement of his feelings when reproached by his friends, had indulged in indefensible language respecting his own integrity. He now saw the error and folly of this, and desired to take the lowest…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-6Job understood the message of God’s speeches: I know that You can do all things. Nothing is too hard for him (Genesis 18:14; Jeremiah 32:17; Matthew 19:26). Job says, No plan of Yours can be thwarted (Job 23:13; Isaiah 14:27; 46:10). Job realized how different he was from God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. myself--rather "I abhor," and retract the rash speeches I made against thee (Job 42:3, 4) [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 42
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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