Job's Confession and Repentance
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Then Job answered the Lord and said:
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"I know that you can h do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
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i 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?'
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
things j too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
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'Hear, and I will speak;
k I will question you, and you make it known to me.'
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I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you;
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therefore I despise myself,
and repent in l dust and ashes."
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Cross References
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
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Cross References
Job 38:2
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
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Cross References
Psalms 40:5
You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
Psalms 131:1
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
Psalms 139:6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
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Cross References
Job 38:3
Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Job 40:7
Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
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Cross References
Job 30:19
God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Job 2:8
And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
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