Job 42:1-6
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Job Is Humbled and Satisfied
42 Then Job answered the Lord:
2 “I know that you can do all things
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.(A)
3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me that I did not know.(B)
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you declare to me.’(C)
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you;(D)
6 therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”(E)
Job 32:3
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3 he was angry also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.[a](A)
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- 32.3 Or answer, and had put God in the wrong
Job 40:3-5
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Job’s Response to God
3 Then Job answered the Lord:
4 “See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.(A)
5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer,
twice but will proceed no further.”(B)
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