1. Then Job answered the Lord and said,
2. "I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.
3. 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know."
4. 'Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.'
5. "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You;
6. Therefore I retract, And I repent in dust and ashes."
7. It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.