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42:1 Iyyov requests God’s forgiveness

42 Then Iyyov answered Yahweh:

2 I know that you can do everything,

≈and no one can stop you from doing what you want.

3 You asked, [ref]

‘Who’s this concealing counsel without knowledge?’

That’s why I spouted out things I didn’t understand—

things that are too wonderful for me—that I didn’t know.

4 Listen now, and I’ll speak.[ref]

I’ll tell you my question and you can inform me.

5 I’d heard you with my ears,

but now I can see you with my eyes.

6 Therefore I despise myself for what I said,

and I show my repentance by sitting in dust and ashes.

42:3: Yob 38:2.

42:4: Yob 38:3.

42 and_answered ʼIyyōⱱ DOM Yahweh and_said.
2 I _know[fn] if/because _that everything you _are _able and_not it _is _withheld of_yours a _purpose.
3 Who this [is]_concealing (of)_counsel not knowledge for_so/thus/hence I _have _told and_not I _understood [things _too]_wonderful too _for_me and_not I _knew.
4 Listen please and_I I _will _speak question_you and_inform_me.
5 By_hearing of _[the]_ear heard_you and_now eye_my seen_you.
6 On/upon/above/on _account _of//he/it _went _in yes/correct/thus/so I _reject and_repent on dust and_ashes.

42:2 Variant note: ידעת: (x-qere) ’יָ֭דַעְתִּי’: lemma_3045 n_1.0 morph_HVqp1cs id_18Mpf יָ֭דַעְתִּי

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Iyyov requests God’s forgiveness

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