◄ Job 42:4 ►
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Good News Translation
You told me to listen while you spoke and to try to answer your questions.

New Revised Standard Version
‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.’

Contemporary English Version
You told me to listen and answer your questions.

New American Bible
“Listen, and I will speak; I will question you, and you tell me the answers.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

Hear

Genesis 18:27,30-32 And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes. . . .

I will

Job 38:3 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

Job 40:7 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

Context
Job Submits Himself to the LORD
…3Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge. 4Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.5With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.…
Cross References
Job 38:3
Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

Job 40:7
Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

Job 42:3
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