English Standard Version
Job 42:5
5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
Context of Job 42:5
3'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. 4'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; 6therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes." 7After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "My anger burns 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 brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.
- Job 28:22Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
- Job 33:16then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings,
- Romans 10:17So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
- Job 23:8"Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him;
- Numbers 12:6And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.
- Isaiah 6:1In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
- John 1:18No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
- John 12:41Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
- Acts 7:55But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory 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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