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Job 42:6

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42:6Therefore I despise myself,7

and I repent in dust and ashes!

VII. The Epilogue (42:7–17)

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Job 42:5–6: “I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Footnotes

  1. 7 Or “despise what I said.” There is no object on the verb; Job could be despising himself or the things he said (see L. J. Kuyper, “Repentance of Job,” 9 [1959]: 91–94).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

therefore I despise myself,

and repent in dust and ashes.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Therefore I despise myself

and repent in dust and ashes.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them;

I am dust and ashes.

NLTNew Living Translation

I take back everything I said,

and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Therefore I despise myself

and repent in dust and ashes.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent

In dust and ashes.