Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself, ¹  and I repent in dust and ashes!

1Ki 21:27; Ezr 9:6; Es 4:1-3; Job 2:8; Job 9:31; Job 30:19; Job 40:3,4; Ps 51:17; Isa 5:5; Isa 58:5; Jer 31:19; Eze 16:63; Eze 20:43; Eze 36:31; Da 9:3; Jon 3:6-10; Mt 11:21; Lu 10:13; Lu 15:18,19; 1Co 15:8,9; 1Ti 1:13-16; Jas 4:7-10

¹ tn Or “despise what I said.” There is no object on the verb; Job could be despising himself or the things he said (see L. J. Kuyper, “Repentance of Job,” VT 9 [1959]: 91-94).