Job 42:5

Before, I had only heard about you, but now I've seen you for myself.

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I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

In Context

4You told me, ‘Listen to me, I am going to speak. I am going to question you, and you must answer me.’

6That is why I'm sorry for what I said, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

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Cross References

Job 4:12A word quietly crept up on me; a whisper reached my ear.

Job 26:14This is just a little of all he does—what we hear of him is hardly a whisper, so who can understand his thunderous power?”

Job 33:16God speaks to them with solemn warnings

Isaiah 6:5I cried out, “I'm doomed! I'm going to die because I'm a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, for I've seen the King, the Lord Almighty!”

John 12:41Isaiah saw Jesus' glory and said this in reference to him.

Acts 7:55But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed up into heaven and saw God's glory, with Jesus standing at God's right hand.

Matthew Henry on Job 42:2-7

Job's Humble Confession. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered the Lord , and said, 2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and… Read the whole commentary →

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