Job 42:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I abhor, i.e. dislike, and detest, and loathe myself, or my former words and carriage. One of these or some like supplement is necessary to complete the sense, and is clearly gathered from the following words. In dust and ashes; sitting in dust and ashes; which hitherto I have done in token of my grief for my affliction; but now I desire and resolve to do in testimony of my penitence for my sins.