Job 42:6

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַל־כֵּ֭ן אֶמְאַ֣ס וְנִחַ֑מְתִּי עַל־עָפָ֥ר וָאֵֽפֶר׃

Transliteration

Upon-kēn ʾemʾas and-niḥamtî upon-ʿāpār and-ʾēper

Grammar Details

• *kēn*: adverb - thus/so
• *ʾemʾas*: Qal imperfect, 1st singular - I despise/reject
• *niḥamtî*: Niphal perfect, 1st singular - I am comforted/I repent
• *ʿāpār*: noun, masculine singular - dust
• *ʾēper*: noun, masculine singular - ashes

Word Meanings

• *kēn*: thus/so/therefore
• *ʾemʾas*: I despise/I reject/I abhor
• *niḥamtî*: I repent/I am comforted/I am sorry
• *ʿāpār*: dust/dirt/earth
• *ʾēper*: ashes/dust

Referenced Verses

• Ezra 9:6 : 6 and I said, "My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
• Job 2:8 : 8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
• Job 30:19 : 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
• Job 40:3-4 : 3 Then Job answered Yahweh, 4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
• Dan 9:3 : 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
• Jonah 3:6-9 : 6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; 8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?" 10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.
• Matt 11:21 : 21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
• Luke 10:13 : 13 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
• Luke 15:18-19 : 18 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. 19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'
• 1 Cor 15:8-9 : 8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
• 1 Tim 1:13-16 : 13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
• Jas 4:7-9 : 7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
• Ps 51:17 : 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
• Isa 5:5 : 5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
• Isa 58:5 : 5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
• Jer 31:19 : 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
• Ezek 16:63 : 63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
• Ezek 20:43 : 43 There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
• Ezek 36:31 : 31 Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
• Job 9:31 : 31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
• Esth 4:1-3 : 1 Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly. 2 He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. 3 In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
• 1 Kgs 21:27 : 27 It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.