"Ma'as" is usually "despise", in the sense of thinking something to be
insignificant, and NOT as "abhore". I think that he's saying "I shall be
insignificant [in my own eyes] like dust and ashes". Nothing to do with
"repenting in dust and ashes".
Yigal
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From: Robert Vining
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Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:18 PM
Subject: [biblical-studies] Job 42:6
Re: Job 42:6
What is the best rendering of "ma'ac" in this verse?
If, "despised", who or what is the object?
Robert Vining, Owen Sound, Ontario
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