Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 42:4

"Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me." — Job 42:4 (ASV)

Hear, I beseech you. —This cannot similarly be appropriately assigned to Job but, as in Job 38:3 and Job 40:7, must be referred to God. Then the confession of Job 42:5-6 follows very impressively.

How much of our knowledge of God is merely hearsay? It is not until the experiential teaching of the Holy Spirit has revealed God to our consciences that we truly see Him with the inward eye.

The confession of Job, therefore, is the confession of every converted person. Compare, in a much later and very different yet analogous sphere, the confession of St. Paul (Galatians 1:16).