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42 Then Job answered Yahweh,

“I know that you can do all things,
    and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
    therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand,
    things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

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Job Replies to the Lord

42 Then Job replied to the Lord:

I[a] know that you can do anything
and no plan of yours can be thwarted.(A)
You asked, “Who is this who conceals my counsel with ignorance?”(B)
Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,
things too wondrous for me to[b] know.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 42:2 Alt Hb tradition reads You
  2. 42:3 Lit me, and I did not