1. Then Job replied to the Lord:
2. “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3. You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
4. “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’
5. My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
6. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
7. After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.