6Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.


In Context

3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge.

4 Hear, and I will speak : I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

5 With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.

6 Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

7 And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite : My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before my, as my servant Job hath.

8 Take unto you therefore seven oxen, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust : and my servant Job shall pray for you : his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you : for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.

Job 42:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:6Wherefore I abhor [myself,] and repent in dust and ashes.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

42:6Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

42:6Wherefore I abhor myself , And repent in dust and ashes.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

42:6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:6Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

42:6Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:6Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.