‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Good men come late to owning their faults, though it costs them. God spoke once and Job heard it twice: power belongs to Him alone. Now that truth has gripped him not as doctrine but as judgment upon his own folly in speaking irreverently before the throne.
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Commenting on Job 42:1-6
Job now comes to God not to complain or justify himself, but to confess and ask instruction. He appeals to the Lord as a God of knowledge, willing at last to learn what he was ignorant of before. This is the posture of true repentance: not defense, but petition for wisdom.
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Job takes God's own words and makes them his confession: I am the guilty one. He does not merely regret his words as God charged, but goes further and condemns his entire way of thinking. His thoughts were without knowledge, not just his mouth.
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