Job 42:5
My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
In Context
4You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’
6Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Cross References
Job 4:12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
Job 26:14Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
Job 33:16He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings
Isaiah 6:5Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
John 12:41Isaiah said these things when he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.
Acts 7:55But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
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 →