THEOSISJob 42:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.
עַל־כֵּ֭ן אֶמְאַ֣ס וְנִחַ֑מְתִּי עַל־עָפָ֥ר וָאֵֽפֶר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ezra 9:6And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,
- Jas 4:7Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil: and he will fly from you.
- Jas 4:10Be humbled in the sight of the Lord: and he will exalt you.
- 1 Tim 1:13Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
- 1 Tim 1:16But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.
- Job 40:3Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?
- Job 40:4And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
- Job 30:19I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.