Job 42:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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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