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Legacy Standard Bible

Job 13:1

"Behold, my eye has seen all this;My ear has heard and understood it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ear, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Understanding;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ear;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 8;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Look, my eyes have seen all this;
Hebrew Names Version
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
King James Version
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
English Standard Version
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
New Century Version
"Now my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood it.
New English Translation
"Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.
Amplified Bible
[Job continued:] "Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
New American Standard Bible
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
World English Bible
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
Berean Standard Bible
Behold, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.
Contemporary English Version
Job Continues I know and understand every bit of this.
Complete Jewish Bible
"All this I have seen with my own eyes; with my own ears I have heard and understood it.
Darby Translation
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Easy-to-Read Version
"I have seen all this before. I have already heard everything you say. I understand all these things.
George Lamsa Translation
Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
Good News Translation
Everything you say, I have heard before. I understand it all; I know as much as you do. I'm not your inferior. <
Lexham English Bible
"Look, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it.
Literal Translation
Behold, my eye has seen all this; my ear has heard and understood it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Lo, all this haue I sene with myne eye, herde with myne eare, & vnderstonde it.
American Standard Version
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, Mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, my eye has seen all this, word of it has come to my ear, and I have knowledge of it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
King James Version (1611)
Loe, mine eye hath seene all this, mine eare hath heard and vnderstood it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Lo, all [this] haue I seene with mine eye, heard with mine eare, and vnderstande it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard them.
English Revised Version
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! myn iye siy alle thingis, and myn eere herde; and Y vndurstood alle thingis.
Update Bible Version
Look, my eye has seen all [this], My ear has heard and understood it.
Webster's Bible Translation
Lo, my eye hath seen all [this], my ear hath heard and understood it.
New King James Version
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
New Living Translation
"Look, I have seen all this with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears, and now I understand.
New Life Bible
"See, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
New Revised Standard
"Look, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! all this , hath mine own eye seen, - Mine ear hath heard and understood it:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.
Revised Standard Version
"Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
Young's Literal Translation
Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
THE MESSAGE
"Yes, I've seen all this with my own eyes, heard and understood it with my very own ears. Everything you know, I know, so I'm not taking a backseat to any of you. I'm taking my case straight to God Almighty; I've had it with you—I'm going directly to God. You graffiti my life with lies. You're a bunch of pompous quacks! I wish you'd shut your mouths— silence is your only claim to wisdom.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.

Contextual Overview

1"Behold, my eye has seen all this;My ear has heard and understood it. 2What you know I also know;I have not fallen short of you. 3"But I would speak to the Almighty,And I desire to argue with God. 4But you cover me with lies;You are all worthless physicians. 5O that you would be completely silent,And that it would become your wisdom! 6Please hear my argumentAnd give heed to the contentions of my lips. 7Will you speak what is unrighteous for God,And speak what is deceitful for Him? 8Will you show partiality for Him?Will you contend for God? 9Will it be well when He examines you?Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man? 10He will surely reprove youIf you secretly show partiality.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lo: Job 5:9-16, Job 12:9-25, Job 42:3-6

ear: Job 4:12, Job 5:27, Job 8:8-10, Job 15:17, Job 15:18, Psalms 78:3, Psalms 78:4, 1 John 1:3

Cross-References

Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left."
Genesis 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar.
Genesis 21:33
And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
Joshua 10:40
Thus Joshua struck all the land—the hill country and the Negev and the Shephelah and the slopes—as well as all their kings. He left no survivor remaining, but he devoted to destruction all who breathed, just as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded.
Joshua 18:5
And they shall divide it into seven portions; Judah shall stay in its territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay in their territory on the north.
1 Samuel 27:10
And Achish said, "Where have you made a raid today?" And David said, "Against the Negev of Judah and against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites and against the Negev of the Kenites."
2 Samuel 24:7
and came to the fortified city of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this],.... Or "all those things" h he had been discoursing of, concerning the wisdom and power of God, and his friends also; some of these he had seen instances of, he had been an eyewitness of them, and could give an ocular testimony to them; and others he had discerned with the eyes of his understanding, being opened and enlightened, and had a clear and distinct view of them, so that he had seen and knew as much of these things as any of them had. Some i interpret it "all" other things, pertaining to the same subject; by what he had said, it might be concluded he knew more; this was but a sample or specimen of his knowledge, which, when observed, it might be perceived what an understanding he had in such divine things: the words are indeed absolute, "my eye hath seen all things" k, which must not be taken in the largest and comprehensive sense of all things to be seen, heard, and understood; for though Job's knowledge was very great, yet it did not take so great a compass as this; many things in nature his eye had not seen, others in providence he could not discern, and but a small portion of God, of his nature, perfections, ways, and works, was known by him, as he himself confesses elsewhere, Job 26:14; this therefore must be limited and restrained to the subject matter in hand, and to what he and his friends had been treating of:

mine ear hath heard; some things he had knowledge of by the report of others, from his forefathers, his ancestors, men of capacity and probity, that could be credited, and safely depended on, and even some things by revelation from God; for if Eliphaz his friend had an heavenly vision, and a divine revelation, which his ear received a little of, why may it not be thought that Job also was sometimes favoured with visions and revelations from God, whereby he became more intimately acquainted with divine and spiritual things?

and understood it; that is, what he had seen and heard; some things may be seen, and yet not known what they are; and other things may be heard, and not understood; but Job had an understanding of what he had seen with his own eyes, or had received by revelation, human or divine: and all this is introduced with a "lo" or "behold"; not as a note of admiration at his knowledge, though the things known by him were wonderful, but as a note of attention to them, and to his remark on them, and as expressive of the certainty of his sight, hearing, and understanding of these things.

h כל אלה "omnia haec", V. L. Tigurine version, Beza, Michaelis; so Vatablus, Mercerus, Piscator, Codurcus. i "Alia omnia", Schmidt. k "Omnia", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Bolducius, Cocceius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this - I have seen illustrations of all that I have said, or that you have said about the methods of divine providence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIII

Job defends himself against the accusations of his friends,

and accuses them of endeavouring to pervert truth, 1-8.

Threatens them with God's judgments, 9-12.

Begs some respite, and expresses strong confidence in God,

13-19.

He pleads with God, and deplores his severe trials and

sufferings, 20-28.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIII

Verse Job 13:1. Lo, mine eye hath seen all this] Ye have brought nothing new to me; I know those maxims as well as you: nor have you any knowledge of which I am not possessed.


 
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