Then Job answered the Lord and said:

  “I know that you can do all things,

and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

‘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.

 ‘Hear, and I will speak;

I will question you, and you make it known to me.’

  I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,

but now my eye sees you;

  therefore I despise myself,

and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 42