Job 42:6
Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
BSB
ASV
Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.
KJV
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Wherefore I reproach myself. 6. For the less a person sees himself, the less is he displeased with himself; and the more he discerns the light of greater grace, the more blameworthy does he acknowledge himself to be. For when he is elevated within, by all that he is, he endeavours to agree with that standard which he beholds above him. And because human weakness still impedes him, he perceives that he differs therefrom in no slight degree, and every thing within him is burdensome, which does not agree with that inward standard.
I abhor myself - Compared with thine, my strength is weakness; my wisdom, folly; and my righteousness, impurity. “I loathe myself when thee I see; And into nothing fall.” Repent - I am deeply distressed on account of the imaginations of my heart, the words of my tongue, and the acts of my life. I roll myself in the dust, and sprinkle ashes upon my head.
1834–1892
JEHOVAH had spoken, Job had trembled. The Lord had revealed Himself, Job had seen Him. Truly, God did but display the skirts of His robe and unveil a part of His ways. But therein was so much of ineffable glory that Job laid his hand upon his mouth in token of his silent consent to the claims of the Everlasting One. God spoke to Job out of the whirlwind concerning the greatness of His power, the wonders of His workings, the splendor of His skill, the infinity of His wisdom.
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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.
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For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the…
O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”
The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
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Job 30:19He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
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then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
