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THE MESSAGE
Job 42:5
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I had heard reports about you,but now my eyes have seen you.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees you.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
My ears had heard of you before, but now my eyes have seen you.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.
"I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear, But now my [spiritual] eye sees You.
"I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You;
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees you.
I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare, but now mine eye seeth thee.
I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;But now my eye sees You;
My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.
I heard about you from others; now I have seen you with my own eyes.
I had heard about you with my ears, but now my eye sees you;
I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee:
In the past I heard about you, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee.
In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
By the ear's hearing I heard of you, but now my eye has seen you.
I have heard of You by hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You;
I haue geuen diligent eare vnto the, and now I se ye with myne eyes.
I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:
Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.
I had heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth Thee;
I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare: but now mine eye seeth thee.
I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare, but nowe myne eye seeth thee.
I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee.
I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee,
Bi heryng of eere Y herde thee, but now myn iye seeth thee.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees you:
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye seeth thee.
"I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.
I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
I had heard of You only by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
By the hearing of the ear, had I heard thee, but, now, mine own eye, hath seen thee.
With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.
I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee;
By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.
Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
heard: Job 4:12, Job 28:22, Job 33:16, Romans 10:17
mine: Job 23:8, Job 23:9, Numbers 12:6-8, Isaiah 6:1, John 1:18, John 12:41, John 12:45, Acts 7:55, Acts 7:56
Reciprocal: Genesis 32:10 - not worthy of the least of all Exodus 3:6 - hid Deuteronomy 8:2 - to humble Job 23:10 - I shall Job 31:23 - by Isaiah 6:5 - said I Isaiah 64:6 - are all Lamentations 3:29 - putteth Ezekiel 16:61 - remember Luke 5:8 - I am Acts 7:32 - Then Philippians 3:9 - not
Cross-References
Then a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live; it was a hard famine. As he drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, "Look. We both know that you're a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see you they're going to say, ‘Aha! That's his wife!' and kill me. But they'll let you live. Do me a favor: tell them you're my sister. Because of you, they'll welcome me and let me live."
There was a famine in the land, as bad as the famine during the time of Abraham. And Isaac went down to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
"Later a famine descended on that entire region, stretching from Egypt to Canaan, bringing terrific hardship. Our hungry fathers looked high and low for food, but the cupboard was bare. Jacob heard there was food in Egypt and sent our fathers to scout it out. Having confirmed the report, they went back to Egypt a second time to get food. On that visit, Joseph revealed his true identity to his brothers and introduced the Jacob family to Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent for his father, Jacob, and everyone else in the family, seventy-five in all. That's how the Jacob family got to Egypt. "Jacob died, and our fathers after him. They were taken to Shechem and buried in the tomb for which Abraham paid a good price to the sons of Hamor. "When the four hundred years were nearly up, the time God promised Abraham for deliverance, the population of our people in Egypt had become very large. And there was now a king over Egypt who had never heard of Joseph. He exploited our race mercilessly. He went so far as forcing us to abandon our newborn infants, exposing them to the elements to die a cruel death. "In just such a time Moses was born, a most beautiful baby. He was hidden at home for three months. When he could be hidden no longer, he was put outside—and immediately rescued by Pharaoh's daughter, who mothered him as her own son. Moses was educated in the best schools in Egypt. He was equally impressive as a thinker and an athlete. "When he was forty years old, he wondered how everything was going with his Hebrew kin and went out to look things over. He saw an Egyptian abusing one of them and stepped in, avenging his underdog brother by knocking the Egyptian flat. He thought his brothers would be glad that he was on their side, and even see him as an instrument of God to deliver them. But they didn't see it that way. The next day two of them were fighting and he tried to break it up, told them to shake hands and get along with each other: ‘Friends, you are brothers, why are you beating up on each other?' "The one who had started the fight said, ‘Who put you in charge of us? Are you going to kill me like you killed that Egyptian yesterday?' When Moses heard that, realizing that the word was out, he ran for his life and lived in exile over in Midian. During the years of exile, two sons were born to him. "Forty years later, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to him in the guise of flames of a burning bush. Moses, not believing his eyes, went up to take a closer look. He heard God's voice: ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Frightened nearly out of his skin, Moses shut his eyes and turned away. "God said, ‘Kneel and pray. You are in a holy place, on holy ground. I've seen the agony of my people in Egypt. I've heard their groans. I've come to help them. So get yourself ready; I'm sending you back to Egypt.' "This is the same Moses whom they earlier rejected, saying, ‘Who put you in charge of us?' This is the Moses that God, using the angel flaming in the burning bush, sent back as ruler and redeemer. He led them out of their slavery. He did wonderful things, setting up God-signs all through Egypt, down at the Red Sea, and out in the wilderness for forty years. This is the Moses who said to his congregation, ‘God will raise up a prophet just like me from your descendants.' This is the Moses who stood between the angel speaking at Sinai and your fathers assembled in the wilderness and took the life-giving words given to him and handed them over to us, words our fathers would have nothing to do with. "They craved the old Egyptian ways, whining to Aaron, ‘Make us gods we can see and follow. This Moses who got us out here miles from nowhere—who knows what's happened to him!' That was the time when they made a calf-idol, brought sacrifices to it, and congratulated each other on the wonderful religious program they had put together. "God wasn't at all pleased; but he let them do it their way, worship every new god that came down the pike—and live with the consequences, consequences described by the prophet Amos: Did you bring me offerings of animals and grains those forty wilderness years, O Israel? Hardly. You were too busy building shrines to war gods, to sex goddesses, Worshiping them with all your might. That's why I put you in exile in Babylon. "And all this time our ancestors had a tent shrine for true worship, made to the exact specifications God provided Moses. They had it with them as they followed Joshua, when God cleared the land of pagans, and still had it right down to the time of David. David asked God for a permanent place for worship. But Solomon built it. "Yet that doesn't mean that Most High God lives in a building made by carpenters and masons. The prophet Isaiah put it well when he wrote, "Heaven is my throne room; I rest my feet on earth. So what kind of house will you build me?" says God. "Where I can get away and relax? It's already built, and I built it." "And you continue, so bullheaded! Calluses on your hearts, flaps on your ears! Deliberately ignoring the Holy Spirit, you're just like your ancestors. Was there ever a prophet who didn't get the same treatment? Your ancestors killed anyone who dared talk about the coming of the Just One. And you've kept up the family tradition—traitors and murderers, all of you. You had God's Law handed to you by angels—gift-wrapped!—and you squandered it!" At that point they went wild, a rioting mob of catcalls and whistles and invective. But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, hardly noticed—he only had eyes for God, whom he saw in all his glory with Jesus standing at his side. He said, "Oh! I see heaven wide open and the Son of Man standing at God's side!" Yelling and hissing, the mob drowned him out. Now in full stampede, they dragged him out of town and pelted him with rocks. The ringleaders took off their coats and asked a young man named Saul to watch them. As the rocks rained down, Stephen prayed, "Master Jesus, take my life." Then he knelt down, praying loud enough for everyone to hear, "Master, don't blame them for this sin"—his last words. Then he died.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear,.... From his ancestors, who in a traditionary way had handed down from one to another what they knew of God, his will and worship, his works and ways; and from those who had the care of his education, parents and tutors, who had instilled the principles of religion, and the knowledge of divine things, into him very early; and from such as might instruct in matters of religion in a public manner; and both by ordinary and extraordinary revelation made unto him, as was sometimes granted to men in that age in which Job lived; see Job 4:16. Though he had heard more of God through his speaking to him out of the whirlwind than ever he did before, to which he had attentively listened; and the phrase, hearing by or with the hearing of the ear, denotes close attention; see Ezekiel 44:5;
but now mine eye seeth thee; thy Shechinah, as Jarchi; thy divine glory and Majesty; the Logos, the Word or Son of God, who now appeared in an human form, and spake to Job out of the whirlwind; and whom he saw with the eyes of his body, as several of the patriarchs had seen him, and which is the sense of an ancient writer n; though no doubt he saw him also with the eyes of his understanding, and had a clearer sight of his living Redeemer, the Messiah, than ever he had before; and saw more of God in Christ, of his nature, perfections, and glory, than ever he had as yet seen; and what he had heard of him came greatly short of what he now saw; particularly he had a more clear and distinct view of the sovereignty, wisdom, goodness, and justice of God in the dealings of his providence with the children of men, and with himself, to which now he humbly submitted.
n Euseb. Demonstr. Evangel. l. 1. c. 5. p. 11.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear - Referring to the indistinct views which we have of anything by merely hearing of it, compared with the clear apprehension which is furnished by sight. Job had had such views of God as one may obtain by being told of him; he now had such views as are furnished by the sight. The meaning is, that his views of God before were dark and obscure.
But now mine eye seeth thee - We are not to suppose that Job means to say that he actually âsawâ God, but that his apprehensions of him were clear and bright âas ifâ he did. There is no evidence that God appeared to Job in any visible form. He is said, indeed, to have spoken from the whirlwind, but no visible manifestation of Yahweh is mentioned.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 42:5. I have heard of thee — I have now such a discovery of thee as I have never had before. I have only heard of thee by tradition, or from imperfect information; now the eye of my mind clearly perceives thee, and in seeing thee, I see myself; for the light that discovers thy glory and excellence, discovers my meanness and vileness.
