Job 42:1-8

Common English Bible

Job’s second response

42 Job answered the Lord:

²I know you can do anything;
    no plan of yours can be opposed successfully.
³You said,^[a] “Who is this darkening counsel without knowledge?”
    I have indeed spoken about things I didn’t understand,
    wonders beyond my comprehension.
⁴You said,^[b] “Listen and I will speak;
    I will question you and you will inform me.”
⁵My ears had heard about you,
    but now my eyes have seen you.
⁶Therefore, I relent^[c] and find comfort
    on dust and ashes.

Epilogue

⁷After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz from Teman, “I’m angry at you and your two friends because you haven’t spoken about me correctly as did my servant Job. ⁸So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and prepare an entirely burned offering for yourselves. Job my servant will pray for you, and I will act favorably by not making fools of you because you didn’t speak correctly, as did my servant Job.”

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Footnotes

Job 42:3 Heb lacks You said.
Job 42:4 Heb lacks You said.
Job 42:6 The verse is capable of several translations: I despise or relent, no direct object; repent of or concerning dust and ashes.