Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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.
AI summary
Commenting on Job 42:1-6
And it was so,.... What follows came to pass: that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job; which he spake to him out of the whirlwind, and after he had heard Job's confession, and the declaration he made of his humiliation and repentance: the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite; who with his two friends were still present and heard the speeches of...
myself--rather "I abhor," and retract the rash speeches I made against thee (Job 42:3-4) [UMBREIT].