Job 42:5
Good News Translation
In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.

New Revised Standard Version
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;

Contemporary English Version
I heard about you from others; now I have seen you with my own eyes.

New American Bible
By hearsay I had heard of you, but now my eye has seen you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.

heard

Job 4:12 Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.

Job 28:22 Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.

Job 33:16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.

Romans 10:17 Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ.

mine

Job 23:8,9 But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him. . . .

Numbers 12:6-8 He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream. . . .

Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple.

John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

John 12:41,45 These things said Isaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. . . .

Acts 7:55,56 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. . . .

Context
Job Submits Himself to the LORD
4Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me. 5With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.6Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.…
Cross References
Romans 10:17
Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ.

Ephesians 1:17
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him:

Ephesians 1:18
The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the hope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

Job 26:14
Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

Job 42:6
Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

Isaiah 6:5
And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

Habakkuk 3:2
O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.

Job 42:4
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