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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”

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