⁴ “Behold,^(A) I am vile;
What shall I answer You?
^(B)I lay my hand over my mouth.

² “I know that You ^(A)can do everything,
And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.
³ You asked, ^(B)‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
^(C)Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
⁴ Listen, please, and let me speak;
You said, ^(D)‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’

⁵ “I have ^(E)heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees You.
⁶ Therefore I ^(F)abhor^[a] myself,
And repent in dust and ashes.”