Job 13:1
“Hey, I [SYN] have seen everything that you have seen, and I have heard and understood all that you have said.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
In Context
2What you know, I also know; I do ◄not know less than/know as much as► you.
Cross References
Job 4:12“I heard a message that someone came and whispered to me.
Job 5:27“My friends and I have thought carefully about these things, and we know that they are true, so pay attention to what I have said!”
Job 12:9All of them certainly know [RHQ] that it is Yahweh who has made them with his hands.
Job 42:3You asked me, ‘◄Who are you, who by speaking ignorantly, question what I plan to do?/You have no right to question what I plan to do by speaking ignorantly.►’ [RHQ] It is true that I spoke about things that I did not understand, things that are very wonderful/marvelous, and therefore I am not able to know them.
1 John 1:3We proclaim to you the message about Jesus, the one whom we saw and heard, in order that you may have a close relationship with us. The ones whom we have a close relationship with are God our Father and his Son Jesus Christ.
Matthew Henry on Job 13:1
Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in then: for, I. He is very bold with his friends, comparing himself with them, notwithstanding the mortifications he was under, ver. 1, 2 . Condemning them for their falsehood, their forwardness to judge, their partiality and deceitfulness under colour of pleading God's cause ( ver. 4-8 ), and threatening them with the judgments of God for their so doing ( ver. 9-12 ), desiring… Read the whole commentary →