King James Version
Job 42:4 in the King James Version says “Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.” — study this verse from Job chapter 42 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.”
Job 42:4 · KJV
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. no thought can be: or, no thought of thine can be hindered
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Hear”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
“I beseech thee and I will speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“I will demand”
H7592to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand
“of thee and declare”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
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