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Job 42:6

RepentanceHumilityShame

4 You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’

5 My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

8 So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

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BSB
Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
KJV
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
WEB
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
ASV
Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.
DARBY
Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
BLB
Upon thus I despise [it], and I repent in dust and ashes.”
ÅB
Derfor kaller jeg alt tilbake og angrer i støv og aske.
OTB
Derfor trekker jeg mine ord tilbake
og angrer i støv og aske."
B1930
Derfor kaller jeg alt tilbake og angrer i støv og aske.

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  • Ezra 9:6

    and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

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  • 1 Timothy 1:13–16

    I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.

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  • James 4:7–10

    Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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  • Job 40:3–4

    Then Job answered the LORD:

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  • Daniel 9:3

    So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

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  • Job 30:19

    He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

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  • Luke 10:13

    Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

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  • Ezekiel 36:31

    Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.

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