Job 42:1-6

Job’s Confession and Repentance

1 Then Job answered the Lord and said:

2 “I know that you can ^ado all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 ^b‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
things ^ctoo wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;
^dI will question you, and you make it known to me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you;
6 therefore I despise myself,
and repent ^{▼▼Or and am comforted} in ^fdust and ashes.”