Job Chapter 42 verse 4 Holy Bible
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
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Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
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Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and inform me.
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Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
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Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will ask of thee, and declare thou to me.
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You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'
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`Hear, I pray thee, and I -- I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me, Job refers to God's words in Job 38:3 and Job 40:7, and realizes the humbling effect which they had had on him. They made him feel how little he knew on the subject of God's works and ways, and how little competent he was to judge them. Hence he bursts into the confession-
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Hear, I beseech thee.--This cannot in like manner be appropriately assigned to Job, but, as in Job 38:3; Job 40:7, must be referred to God; then the confession of Job 42:5-6 comes in very grandly. How much of our knowledge of God is merely hearsay? and it is not till the experimental teaching of the Holy Ghost has revealed God to our consciences that we really see Him with the inward eye. The confession of Job, therefore, is the confession of every converted man. Compare in a much later and very different, and yet analogous sphere, the confession of St. Paul (Galatians 1:16).