New International Version
Job 42:6
6Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
Job 42:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wherefore I abhor 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.”
- New Living Translation (NLT)I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”
Context of Job 42:6
4“You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’ 5My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.” 7After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. 8So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”
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עַל־כֵּ֭ן אֶמְאַ֣ס וְנִחַ֑מְתִּי עַל־עָפָ֥ר וָאֵֽפֶר׃ פRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 42:6
- Job 9:31you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.
- Job 40:3Then Job answered the Lord:
- Ezra 9:6and prayed: “I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
- Psalms 51:17My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
- Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
- Jeremiah 31:19After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
- Ezekiel 16:63Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ ”
- Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your conduct and all the actions by which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil you have done.
- Ezekiel 36:31Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices.
- Luke 15:18I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
- 1 Corinthians 15:8and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
- 1 Timothy 1:13Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief.
- James 4:7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Job 2:8Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
- Job 30:19He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
- 1 Kings 21:27When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
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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