Job 42:4-6

Job's Confession and Repentance

⁴ 'Hear, and I will speak;
_k I 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 ₁ in _l dust and ashes."

1. 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.
   
2. 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.