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Job Is Humbled and Satisfied

42 Then Job answered the Lord:

“I know that you can do all things
    and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.(A)
‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me that I did not know.(B)

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Job’s Repentance and Restoration

42 Then[a] Job answered Yahweh and said,

“I know that you can do all things,
and any scheme from you will not be thwarted.
‘Who is this darkening counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I uttered, but[b] I did not understand;
things too wonderful for me,[c] but I did not know.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 42:1 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 42:3 Hebrew “and”
  3. Job 42:3 Literally “wonderful things from me”