Job 42:4

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.

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 repent in dust and ashes.

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Sammenlign

ÅB: Men hør nå, så vil jeg tale! Jeg vil spørre deg, og du skal lære meg.
OTB: ‘Hør nå, og jeg vil tale;
jeg vil spørre deg, og du skal informere meg.’
B1930: Men hør nu, så vil jeg tale! Jeg vil spørre dig, og du skal lære mig.

BSB: You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’
KJV: Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
WEB: You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’
ASV: Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
DARBY: Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and inform me.
BLB: ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’

Job 40:7
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
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Job 38:3
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
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Genesis 18:30–32
And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
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Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
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