Job 42:6
What meaning of the job 42:6 in the Bible?
What does Job 42:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
What does Job 42:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
Verse Job 42:6. _I ABHOR_ MYSELF] Compared with thine, my strength is weakness; my wisdom, folly; and my righteousness, impurity. "I loathe myself when thee I see; And into nothing fall." _REPENT_...
WHEREFORE I ABHOR MYSELF - I see that I am a sinner to be loathed and abhorred. Job, though he did not claim to be perfect, had yet unquestionably been unduly exalted with the conception of his own ri...
VI. THE CONFESSION OF JOB CHAPTER 42:1-6 Critics claim that Job's answer is misplaced and that it really ought to be put in connection with chapter 41:3-5. This is another evidence of the lack of sp...
Job's final speech (continuation of Job 40:3). Job 42:1 is to be removed as a gloss: as are also Job 42:3 a, Job 42:4 b, which are quoted from Job 38:2 f., and probably came in from the margin. Job a...
I ABHOR MYSELF, AND REPENT. "The end of the Lord" (i.e. what Jehovah designed as the great lesson of this book) is at length reached. Compare James 5:11....
Job 42:1-6. Job's reply to the Lord's Second Address from the Storm The Lord's words make Job feel more deeply than before that greatness which belongs to God alone, and with deep compunction he retr...
WHEREFORE I ABHOR MYSELF— _Wherefore I am ready to drop into dissolution._ Heath. See the note on chap. Job 3:24. As a supplement to which, we add here, that the Chaldee paraphrast had such a sense of...
D. MAN IN GOD'S IMAGE VS. GOD IN MAN'S IMAGE (Job 42:1-6) TEXT 42:1-6 42 THEN JOB ANSWERED JEHOVAH AND SAID, 2 I know that thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of thine can be restrained....
_WHEREFORE I ABHOR MYSELF, AND REPENT IN DUST AND ASHES._ Myself - rather, 'I abhor,' and retract the rash speeches I made against thee (Job 42:3). (Umbreit.)...
JOB'S FINAL WITHDRAWAL Job at last has learned his lesson. The convincing evidences of wisdom, power, and love which God has offered him, have led him to lay aside his pride of intellect and pride of...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 42 THE END OF JOB’S TROUBLE...
עַל ־כֵּ֭ן אֶמְאַ֣ס וְ נִחַ֑מְתִּי עַל ־עָפָ֥ר וָ אֵֽפֶר׃ פ...
RESTORED TO RIGHT RELATIONS WITH GOD Job 42:1 In complete surrender Job bowed before God, confessing his ignorance and owning that he had spoken glibly of things which he understood not. He had reto...
Job's answer is full of the stateliness of a great submission. As he speaks the words of surrender he appears mightier in his submission than all the things into the presence of which he has been brou...
Reprehend. Hebrew and Septuagint, "vilify." (Haydock) --- I recall the obscure expression which has occasioned my friends to mistake. (Du Hamel) --- Penance. Hebrew, "groan." Septuagint, "pine away, I...
(1) В¶ Then Job answered the LORD, and said, (2) I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. (3) Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore h...
_THE MYSTERY OF PAIN_ ‘I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth Thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.’ Job 42:5 There are some verses in the bo...
God Speaks Job Repents I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we covered a lot of territory! 1. We finished with Elihu's speeches to Job and found that, although he was a lot more accurate in what he had to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, a...
WHEREFORE I ABHOR [MYSELF],.... Or all my words, as Aben Ezra; all the indecent expressions he had uttered concerning God; he could not bear to think of them; he loathed them, and himself on account o...
Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes. Ver. 6. _Wherefore I abhor myself_] _Aspernor illa,_ so Tremellius. I utterly dislike those my former base and bald conceits of thee, my hard...
_Wherefore I abhor myself_, &c. The more we see of the glory and majesty of God, the more we shall see of the vileness and odiousness of sin, and of ourselves because of sin; and the more we shall aba...
JOB'S HUMBLE CONFESSION....
JOBS REPENTANCE AND PRAYER (vv.1-9) Who would not be totally subdued after hearing God speak such things as He did to Job? What a change took place in Job's attitude and in his words! He was humbled...
1-6 Job was now sensible of his guilt; he would no longer speak in his own excuse; he abhorred himself as a sinner in heart and life, especially for murmuring against God, and took shame to himself....
I ABHOR, i.e. dislike, and detest, and loathe MYSELF, or _my former words and carriage_. One of these or some like supplement is necessary to complete the sense, and is clearly gathered from the follo...
Job 42:6 abhor H3988 (H8799) repent H5162 (H8738) dust H6083 ashes H665 I - Job 9:31, Job 40:3-4; Ezra 9:6; Psalms 51:17; Isaiah 5:5; Jeremiah 31:19;...
WHEREFORE I ABHOR MYSELF The problem, of which the book of Job is the profound discussion, finds here its solution. Brought into the presence of God, Job is revealed to himself. In no sense a hypocri...
Job 17:9 ; JOB 42:5 I. It is not possible to set out the salient features of Job's strength without taking into account the immense energy he derived from his burning consciousness of unimpeachable i...
CONTENTS: Job's self-judgment, followed by new prosperity. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz, three friends. CONCLUSION: Righteousness in a man is excellent but when one becomes too much aware of their...
Job 42:5. _But now mine eye seeth thee._ I have seen thee in thy works, and heard the voice of nature. I have heard all those speeches of my friends, circumscribed in knowledge, and erroneous in judgm...
_Then Job answered the Lord, and said._ JOB’S CONFESSION AND RESTORATION I. Job’s acknowledgment of God’s greatness. Throughout his speeches Job had frequently asserted the majesty of God. But now h...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 42:1 In response to the Lord’s rebuke, Job confesses that the Lord’s power and purposes will not fail, and that he has spoken of things beyond his knowledge. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = docume...
NOTES Job 42:11. “_A piece of money_.” According to Gesenius and others, קשׂיִטָה (_kesitah_), from the unused root קָשַׂט = قَسَطٰ (_kasata_) to “be just or true;” whence قسْط (_Kistoon_) “balances;”...
SECTION VII.—HISTORICAL SEQUEL TO THE DIALOG EXPOSITION JOB 42:1 This concluding chapter divides into two parts. In the first part (Job 42:1) Job makes his final submission, humbling himself in the...
Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from thee (Job 42:1-2). Pretty important: "I know God can do everything." Secondly, "I kno...
1 Corinthians 15:8; 1 Corinthians 15:9; 1 Kings 21:27; 1 Timothy 1:13; Daniel 9:3; Esther 4:1; Ezekiel 16:63; Ezekiel 20:43; Ezekiel 36:31;...
GOD SPEAKS TO JOB Job 38:1 _to Job 42:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed on those lines....