New Living Translation
Job 42:5
5I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
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
3You asked, ‘Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorance?’ It is I—and I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things far too wonderful for me. 4You said, ‘Listen and I will speak! I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.’ I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes. 6I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.” 7After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has.
Read all of Job 42Job 42:5 word by word
לְשֵֽׁמַע־אֹ֥זֶן שְׁמַעְתִּ֑יךָ וְ֝עַתָּ֗ה עֵינִ֥י רָאָֽתְךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 42:5
- Job 4:12“This truth was given to me in secret, as though whispered in my ear.
- Job 28:22Destruction and Death say, ‘We’ve heard only rumors of where wisdom can be found.’
- Job 33:16He whispers in their ears and terrifies them with warnings.
- Romans 10:17So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.
- Job 23:8I go east, but he is not there. I go west, but I cannot find him.
- Numbers 12:6And the Lord said to them, “Now listen to what I say: “If there were prophets among you, I, the Lord, would reveal myself in visions. I would speak to them in dreams.
- Isaiah 6:1It was in the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple.
- John 1:18No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.
- John 12:41Isaiah was referring to Jesus when he said this, because he saw the future and spoke of the Messiah’s glory.
- Acts 7:55But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed steadily into heaven and saw the glory of God, and he saw Jesus standing in the place of honor at God’s right hand.
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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