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Job 42:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whereforeh I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashesi.

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Job 40:4• ⁴Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. (Job 40:4)

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Ezra 9:6• ⁶and said: O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens. (Ezra 9:6)

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Psa. 51:17• ¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Psa. 51:17)

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Jer. 31:19• ¹⁹Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I knew myself, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth. (Jer. 31:19)

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James 4:10• ¹⁰Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he shall exalt you. (James 4:10)

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Dan. 9:3• ³And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes; (Dan. 9:3)

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Matt. 11:21• ²¹Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you, had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented in sackcloth and ashes. (Matt. 11:21)

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Job 9:31• ³¹Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me. (Job 9:31)

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Job 40:3‑4• ³And Job answered Jehovah and said,
⁴Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. (Job 40:3‑4)

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Ezra 9:6• ⁶and said: O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens. (Ezra 9:6)

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Psa. 51:17• ¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Psa. 51:17)

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Isa. 5:5• ⁵And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot; (Isa. 5:5)

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Jer. 31:19• ¹⁹Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I knew myself, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth. (Jer. 31:19)

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Ezek. 16:63• ⁶³that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I forgive thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 16:63)

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Ezek. 20:43• ⁴³And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils which ye have committed. (Ezek. 20:43)

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Ezek. 36:31• ³¹And ye shall remember your evil ways, and your doings which were not good, and shall loathe yourselves for your iniquities and for your abominations. (Ezek. 36:31)

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Luke 15:18‑19• ¹⁸I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;
¹⁹I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. (Luke 15:18‑19)

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1 Cor. 15:8‑9• ⁸and last of all, as to an abortion, he appeared to *me* also.
⁹For *I* am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God. (1 Cor. 15:8‑9)

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1 Tim. 1:13‑16• ¹³who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing man: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.
¹⁴But the grace of our Lord surpassingly over-abounded with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
¹⁵Faithful is the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom *I* am the first.
¹⁶But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, the first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal. (1 Tim. 1:13‑16)

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James 4:7‑10• ⁷Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
⁹Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
¹⁰Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he shall exalt you. (James 4:7‑10)

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Job 2:8• ⁸And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes. (Job 2:8)

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Job 30:19• ¹⁹He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. (Job 30:19)

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1 Kings 21:27• ²⁷And it came to pass when Ahab heard these words, that he rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. (1 Kings 21:27)

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Esther 4:1‑3• ¹And when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his garments, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry,
²and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
³And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing: many lay in sackcloth and ashes. (Esther 4:1‑3)

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Isa. 58:5• ⁵Is such the fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul,--that he should bow down his head as a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to Jehovah? (Isa. 58:5)

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Dan. 9:3• ³And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes; (Dan. 9:3)

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Jonah 3:6‑10• ⁶And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
⁷And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water;
⁸and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
⁹Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
¹⁰And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did it not. (Jonah 3:6‑10)

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Matt. 11:21• ²¹Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you, had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented in sackcloth and ashes. (Matt. 11:21)

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Luke 10:13• ¹³Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. (Luke 10:13)

• When Job had been brought to that, it made him speak,-instead of "laying his hand upon his mouth" (Job 40:4; 42:6). (“Hunt’s Sayings - 507” by R. Hunt)

• All the “filthy rags” of an imagined personal righteousness dropped from him, and he stood in all the naked horror of pride and rebellion against God. “Wherefore I abhor” —what? The whole past, every unjust suspicion, every hot accusation, every despairing, restless lament? Yea, more, the author and source of these— “I abhor myself” For who can doubt that Job’s penitence goes beyond the mere judging of his words; he judged himself. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

• He repents of himself, a sorrow and a penitence vastly deeper than any mere acknowledgment of actions and words. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

• We may say, whatever Satan’s sinister object was in all these sufferings inflicted upon Job, God’s purpose was to elicit just this confession. And why? To humiliate him? No, but to give him the true glory—to privilege him, out of the dust, to behold the glory of the Lord, and never again to have a cloud upon his soul! (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

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Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.