Job 42:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.””
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BSBPD
“Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Therefore do I loathe <FI>it<Fi> , And I have repented on dust and ashes.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 42:6 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 13:12But if the skin disease breaks out all over his skin so that it covers all the skin of the infected person from head to foot, as far as the priest can see,
- 1 Kings 21:27When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.
- Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
- Esther 4:1When Mordecai learned of all that had happened, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.
- Job 2:8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
- Job 9:31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
- Job 30:19He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- Job 40:3Then Job answered the LORD:
- Job 40:4“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
- Psalms 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
- Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
- Isaiah 58:5Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
- Jeremiah 31:19After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
- Ezekiel 16:63so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
- Ezekiel 36:31Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.
- Daniel 9:3So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
- Jonah 3:6When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Matthew 11:21“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- Luke 10:13Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
- Luke 15:18I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
- 1 Corinthians 15:8And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.
- 1 Timothy 1:13I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- James 4:7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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