Job 42:4 · KJV
“Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.”
— Job 42:4
Who {is} he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Job 42 — Context
I know that thou canst do every {thing}, and {that} no thought can be withholden from thee. {no thought can be...: or, no thought of thine can be hindered}
3Who {is} he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6Wherefore I abhor {myself}, and repent in dust and ashes.
Cross References
Job 40:7
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job 38:3
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. {answer...: Heb. make me know}
Genesis 18:30-32
And he said {unto him}, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do {it}, if I find thirty there.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes: