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


In Context

3 Who is this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

4 Hear, I pray thee, and I — I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.'

5 By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.

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

7 And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

8 And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

42:6Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance 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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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