Job 42:5

In 11 translations

BSB

My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

KJV

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

WEB

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

ASV

I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:

LSV

By the hearing of the ear I heard You, || And now my eye has seen You.

YLT

By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.

DBY

I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee:

DRC

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

GNV

I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare, but now mine eye seeth thee.

JPS

I had heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth Thee;

LXXE

I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC

לְשֵֽׁמַע־אֹ֥זֶן שְׁמַעְתִּ֑יךָ וְ֝עַתָּ֗ה עֵינִ֥י רָאָֽתְךָ׃

LXX-Br

Ἀκοὴν μὲν ὠτὸς ἤκουόν σου τὸ πρότερον, νυνὶ δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἑώρακέ σε.

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• Ephesians 1:17–18that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him. I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope…
• Romans 10:17Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• John 12:45And whoever sees Me sees the One who sent Me.
• Isaiah 6:1In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
• 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 because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.
• 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?”
• John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
• Numbers 12:6–8He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream. But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My…
• Job 4:12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
• Job 33:16He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings
• Job 23:8–9If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him. When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.
• Job 28:22Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
• Acts 7:55–56But 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. “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand…

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