Job 42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
KJV
Idcirco ipse me reprehendo, et ago pœnitentiam in favilla et cinere.
Vulgate
διὸ ἐφαύλισα ἐμαυτὸν καὶ ἐτάκην· ἥγημαι δὲ ἐγὼ ἐμαυτὸν γῆν καὶ σποδόν.
LXX
Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.
ASV
עַל כֵּ֭ן אֶמְאַ֣ס וְ/נִחַ֑מְתִּי עַל עָפָ֥ר וָ/אֵֽפֶר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֵֽפֶר
'pr
noun · 21×
כֵ֗ן
kn
adjective · 767×
מָאָ֔סוּ
m'sv
verb · 76×
נִי
ny
verb · 108×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
עָפָ֥ר
'pr
noun · 109×
Themes
Theophany
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation. By evangelical humiliation I mean a sense that a Christian has of his own utter insufficiency, despicableness, and odiousness, with an answerable frame of heart. This is quite a different thing from legal humiliation, which is merely the terror of God's wrath without a sense of one's own vileness as a sinner against…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:8 — And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
- 1Tim 1:13 — Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
- 1Tim 1:15 — This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
- 2Cor 10:5 — Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
- 2Sam 24:17 — And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be
- Dan 9:3 — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
- Esth 4:1 — When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
- Esth 4:1 — When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
- Ezek 6:9 — And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes,
- Ezek 16:63 — That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
- Ezek 20:43 — And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
- Ezek 36:31 — Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
- Ezek 36:31 — Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
- Ezra 9:6 — And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
- Ezra 9:6 — And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
- Gal 3:11 — But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
- Isa 5:5 — And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
- Isa 58:5 — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acce
- Jas 4:7 — Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Jer 31:19 — Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
- Job 2:8 — And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
- Job 2:8 — And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
- Job 30:19 — He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- Job 30:19 — He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- Job 40:3 — Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
- Job 40:4 — Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
- Jonah 3:6 — For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Luke 10:13 — Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and a
- Luke 15:18 — I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
- Luke 15:19 — And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
- Luke 18:13 — And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
- Matt 3:2 — And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
- Matt 5:3 — Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Matt 11:21 — Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- Matt 11:21 — Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- Prov 18:12 — Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
- Ps 51:17 — The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
- Ps 139:4 — For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.