Holy Scripture
Job 42:4
A church father on this verse
“Hear, and I will speak; I will question Thee, and answer Thou me. 4. To hear, is, with us, to adapt our ear which is in one place to a sound which comes from another. But with God, on the other hand, to Whom nothing is external, hearing is properly for Him to perceive our longings which are rising up beneath Him. For…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: And I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.
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2I know that thou canst do all things, And nothing is impossible with thee.
3For who is he that hides counsel from thee? Or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? And who will tell me what I knew not, Great and wonderful things which I understood not?
— Job 42:4 —
5I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; But now mine eye has seen thee.
6Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: And I esteem myself dust and ashes.