Job 42:1
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Then Job answered the LORD and said,

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Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

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Then Job answered Yahweh and said,

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Then Job answered the LORD and said,

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Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,

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Job said:

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Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

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Then Job answered the LORD,

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Then Job answered the LORD.

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Job replied to the LORD:

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Then Job answered the LORD,

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Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

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Then Job answered Yahweh:
Literal Translations
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And Job answers YHWH and says:

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And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: --

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And Job will answer Jehovah, and he will say,
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Then Job answered the Lord, and said :

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Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:

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Then Job answered the LORD and said:

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Then Job answered the LORD:
Translations from Aramaic
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THEN Job answered the LORD, and said,

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And Job answered and said to LORD JEHOVAH:
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Then Job answered the LORD, and said:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Then Job answered and said to the Lord,

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Context
Job Submits Himself to the LORD
1Then Job replied to the LORD: 2“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.…

Cross References
Job 40:3-5
Then Job answered the LORD: / “Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth. / I have spoken once, but I have no answer—twice, but I have nothing to add.”

Job 38:1-3
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: / “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge? / Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

Job 9:2-3
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God? / If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

Job 23:3-5
If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat. / I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments. / I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

Job 31:35-37
(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment. / Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown. / I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—

Job 13:3
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

Job 19:25-27
But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth. / Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. / I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

Job 21:22
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

Job 33:12-13
Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. / Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Job 34:31-32
Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more. / Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’

Isaiah 40:14
Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?

Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

Isaiah 55:8-9
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. / “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Daniel 4:35
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”


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the LORD
The term "LORD" in the Hebrew text is "יהוה" (YHWH), the sacred and personal name of God, often rendered as Yahweh. This name is used to emphasize God's eternal and self-existent nature. In the context of Job, it underscores the personal and covenantal relationship God has with His people. Job's use of this name indicates his recognition of God's ultimate authority and his own position before the Creator. It is a moment of reverence and acknowledgment of God's power and wisdom.

and said
The phrase "and said" (וַיֹּאמַר, vayomer) is a common biblical expression introducing speech. In this context, it signifies the beginning of Job's final words in the book. This is not just a casual conversation; it is a profound declaration following a divine encounter. Job's speech is a response to God's revelation, and it sets the stage for his confession and repentance. It is a moment of clarity and understanding, as Job prepares to articulate his newfound insight into God's nature and his own limitations.

Verses 1-17. - This concluding chapter divides into two parts. In the first part (vers. 1-6) Job makes his final submission, humbling himself in the dust before God. In the second (vers. 7-17) the historical framework, in which the general dialogue is set, is resumed and brought to a close. God's approval of Job is declared, and his anger denounced against the three friends, who are required to expiate their guilt by a sacrifice, and only promised forgiveness if Job will intercede on their behalf (ver. 8). The sacrifice takes place (ver. 9); and then a brief account is appended of Job's after life - his prosperity, his reconciliation with his family and friends, his wealth, his sons and daughters, and his death in a good old age, when he was "full of days" (vers. 10-17.). The poetic structure, begun in Job 3:3, is continued to the end of ver. 6, when the style changes into prose of the same character as that employed in ch.. 1. 2, and in Job 32:1-5. Verses 1, 2. - Then Job answered the Lord, and said, I know that thou caner do every thing; i.e. I know and acknowledge thy omnipotence, which thou hast set forth so magnificently before me in ch. 38-41. It is brought home to me by the grand review of thy works which thou hast made, and the details into which thou hast condescended to enter. I know also and acknowledge that no thought can be with-holden from thee; i.e. I confess also thy omniscience - that thou knowest even the thoughts of all created beings (comp. Psalm 44:21; Psalm 139:2; Hebrews 4:13, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then Job
אִיּ֥וֹב (’î·yō·wḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 347: Job -- a patriarch

replied
וַיַּ֖עַן (way·ya·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

to the LORD:
יְהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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