NET Bible
"You said,‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’"
— Job 42:4, NET Bible
“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.'”
“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.”
Job’s Confession Then Job answered the LORD:
“I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;
you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.
You said,‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.
Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!
After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.