Job 42:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Job 42:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 10:17
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Ephesians 1:17-18
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: …
John 12:45
And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
Isaiah 6:1
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
John 12:41
These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Contrition Conviction Depravity of Man Fasting Gentleness God

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

The words of Job justifying himself were ended, Job 31:40. After that he said no more to that purport. The words of Job judging and condemning himself began, Job 40:4, 5. Here he goes on with words to the same purport. Though his patience had not its perfect work, his repentance for his impatience had. He is here thoroughly humbled for his folly and unadvised speaking, and it was forgiven him. Goo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. hearing of the ear--(Psa 18:44, Margin). Hearing and seeing are often in antithesis (Job 29:11; Psa 18:8). seeth--not God’s face (Ex 33:20), but His presence in the veil of a dark cloud (Job 38:1). Job implies also that, besides this literal seeing, he now saw spiritually what he had indistinctly taken on hearsay before God’s infinite wisdom. He “now” proves this; he had seen in a literal sense…