Catholic Public Domain Version
"Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me. "
— Job 42:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.”
“Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. ”
“You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'”
“You said,‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’”
“Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.”
“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.”
“Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.”
Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:
I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from you.
So, who is it that would disguise a lack of knowledge as counsel? Therefore, I have been speaking foolishly, about things whose measure exceeds my knowledge.
Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me.
By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.
Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.
But after the Lord had finished speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath has been kindled against you, and against your two friends, because you have not been speaking correctly in my eyes, as my servant Job has done.