I had heard reports about you,
but now my eyes(A) have seen you.
Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them;
I am dust and ashes.[a][b]

After the Lord had finished speaking[c] to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.

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Footnotes

  1. 42:6 LXX reads I despise myself and melt; I consider myself dust and ashes
  2. 42:6 Lit I reject and I relent, concerning dust and ashes
  3. 42:7 Lit speaking these words

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