Teks -- Job 42:4 (NET)

42:4 You said, ‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

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Wesley: Job 42:4 - Hear

Hear and accept my humble confession.

Wesley: Job 42:4 - Enquire

I will no more dispute the matter with thee, but beg information from thee. The words which God had uttered to Job by way of challenge, Job returns to him in way of submission.

JFB: Job 42:4

When I said, "Hear," &c., Job's demand (Job 13:22) convicted him of being "without knowledge." God alone could speak thus to Job, not Job to God: therefore he quotes again God's words as the groundwork of retracting his own foolish words.

TSK: Job 42:4 - Hear // I will

Hear : Gen 18:27, Gen 18:30-32

I will : Job 38:3, Job 40:7

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Poole: Job 42:4 - I will demand of thee

Hear and accept my humble and penitent confession and recantation.

I will demand of thee or, and inquire , to wit, counsel or instruction, as a scholar doth of his master, as the following words note. I will no more saucily dispute the matter with thee, but beg information from thee. The words which God had uttered to Job by way of challenge, Job 38:3 40:7 , Job returns to him again in way of submission.

Gill: Job 42:4 - Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak // I will demand of thee // and declare thou unto me

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak,.... Not in the manner he had before, complaining of God and justifying himself, but in a way of humble entreaty of favours of him, of confession of sin before him, and of acknowledgment of his wisdom, goodness, and justice in all his dealings with him, which before he arraigned;

I will demand of thee; or rather "I will make petition to thee", as Mr. Broughton renders it; humbly ask a favour, and entreat a gracious answer; for to demand is not so agreeable to the frame and temper of soul Job was now in;

and declare thou unto me; or make him know what he knew not; he now in ignorance applies to God, as a God of knowledge, to inform him in things he was in the dark about, and to increase what knowledge he had. He was now willing to take the advice of Elihu, and pursue it, Job 34:31.