Tree of Life Version
Job 42:6
6Therefore I despise myself, and repent 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
4You said, ‘Hear now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will inform Me.’ 5I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye has seen You. Therefore I despise myself, and repent on dust and ashes.” 7After Adonai had spoken these words to Job, Adonai said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken about Me what is right, like My servant Job has. 8So now, take for yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams and go to My servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept Job’s prayer and not deal with you according to your folly because you have not spoken correctly about Me, like My servant Job.”
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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 9:31then You would plunge me into a pit and my own clothes would detest me.
- Job 40:3Then Job answered Adonai. He said:
- Ezra 9:6I prayed, “O my God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God! For our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
- Psalms 51:17O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
- Isaiah 5:5So now, I will make known to you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down the fence, and it will be trodden down.
- Jeremiah 31:19Is Ephraim a precious son to Me? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I still certainly remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him. I will surely have compassion on him.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
- Ezekiel 16:63So you will remember, be ashamed and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace, when I have forgiven you of all that you have done.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
- Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your ways and all your deeds, by which you defiled yourselves. You will loathe yourselves for all your evil that you have done.
- Ezekiel 36:31When you remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, you will be disgusted with yourselves because of your iniquities and your abominations.
- Luke 15:18I’ll get up and go to my father, and I’ll say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your presence.
- 1 Corinthians 15:8and last of all, as to one untimely born, He also appeared to me.
- 1 Timothy 1:13even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man. Yet I was shown mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
- James 4:7Therefore submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.
- Job 2:8He took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.
- Job 30:19He has cast me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- 1 Kings 21:27Now when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth and walked about subdued.
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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