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Job 42:6

RepentanceHumilityShame

4 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.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

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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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Cross references

  • Ezra 9:6

    And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

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  • 1 Timothy 1:13–16

    Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

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  • James 4:7–10

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

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  • Job 40:3–4

    Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

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  • Daniel 9:3

    And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

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  • Job 30:19

    He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

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  • Luke 10:13

    Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

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  • Ezekiel 36:31

    Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

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