Then Job answered the LORD, and said,(Job 42:1)

I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.(Job 42:2)

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.(Job 42:3)

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.(Job 42:5)

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.(Job 42:6)

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.(Job 42:7)

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Job 42:4 - Cross Reference

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. (Job 40:7)

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: (Genesis 18:27)

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. (Job 38:3)

And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. (Genesis 18:30)