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Job 42:5
5I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear, But now my [spiritual] eye sees You.
Job 42:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
- New International Version (NIV)My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
- New King James Version (NKJV)“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.
Context of Job 42:5
3[You said to me] ‘Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge?’ Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4‘Hear, please, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct [and answer] me.’ I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear, But now my [spiritual] eye sees You. 6Therefore I retract [my words and hate myself] And I repent in dust and ashes.” 7It came about that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
Read all of Job 42Job 42:5 word by word
לְשֵֽׁמַע־אֹ֥זֶן שְׁמַעְתִּ֑יךָ וְ֝עַתָּ֗ה עֵינִ֥י רָאָֽתְךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 42:5
- Job 4:12“Now a word was secretly brought to me, And my ear received a whisper of it.
- Job 28:22Abaddon (the place of destruction) and Death say, ‘We have [only] heard a report of it with our ears.’
- Job 33:16Then He opens the ears of men And seals their instruction,
- Romans 10:17So faith comes from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ.
- Job 23:8“Behold, I go forward (to the east), but He is not there; I go backward (to the west), but I cannot perceive Him;
- Numbers 12:6And He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord will make Myself known to him in a vision And I will speak to him in a dream.
- Isaiah 6:1In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw [in a vision] the Lord sitting on a throne, high and exalted, with the train of His royal robe filling the [most holy part of the] temple.
- John 1:18No one has seen God [His essence, His divine nature] at any time; the [One and] only begotten God [that is, the unique Son] who is in the intimate presence of the Father, He has explained Him [and interpreted and revealed the awesome wonder of the Father].
- John 12:41Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him.
- Acts 7:55But he, being full of the Holy Spirit and led by Him, gazed into heaven and saw the glory [the great splendor and majesty] of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;
Commentaries on Job 42:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5I have heard of thee - I have now such a discovery of thee as I have never had before. I have only heard of thee by tradition, or from imperfect information; now the eye of my mind clearly perceives thee, and in seeing thee, I see myself; for the light that discovers thy glory and excellence, discovers my meanness and vileness.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear - Referring to the indistinct views which we have of anything by merely hearing of it, compared with the clear apprehension which is furnished by sight. Job had had such views of God as one may obtain by being told of him; he now had such views as are furnished by the sight. The meaning is, that his views of God before were dark and obscure. But now mine eye seeth thee - We are not to suppose that Job means…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5now my eyes have seen You: Before this, Job had not seen God (see 23:8). Now, like the prophet Isaiah, he has been in God's presence and feels overwhelmed by how holy God is (Isaiah 6:1).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. hearing of the ear--(Psa 18:44, Margin). Hearing and seeing are often in antithesis (Job 29:11; Psa 18:8). seeth--not God's face (Ex 33:20), but His presence in the veil of a dark cloud (Job 38:1). Job implies also that, besides this literal seeing, he now saw spiritually what he had indistinctly taken on hearsay before God's infinite wisdom. He "now" proves this; he had seen in a literal sense before, at the beginning of God's speech, but he had not…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 42
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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