Job 42:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Hear, I beseech thee. — This cannot in like manner be appropriately assigned to Job, but, as in Job 38:3; Job 40:7, must be referred to God; then the confession of Job 42:5-6 comes in very grandly. How much of our knowledge of God is merely hearsay? and it is not till the experimental teaching of the Holy Ghost has revealed God to our consciences that we really see Him with the inward eye. The confession of Job, therefore, is the confession of every converted man. Compare in a much later and very different, and yet analogous sphere, the confession of St. Paul (Galatians 1:16).

Job 42:4

4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.