Job 42:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:3 : 3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
  • Job 40:7 : 7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes:
  • Gen 18:30-32 : 30 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. 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for twenty's sake. 32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.

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    2Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

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  • 17¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will declare;

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  • Job 40:7-8
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    7Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

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    1¶ Furthermore Elihu answered and said,

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    3Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

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