Job 42:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.”
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BSBPD
“My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 42:5 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 12:6He 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.
- Job 4:12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
- Job 23:8If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find 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?”
- Job 28:22Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
- Job 33:16He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings
- 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 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.
- John 12:41Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.
- John 12:45And whoever sees Me sees the One who sent Me.
- Acts 7:55But 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.
- Romans 10:17Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
- Ephesians 1:17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
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