Bible verse

Job 42:5

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

Job 42:5 · BSB

Job 42:5 in context

The verses around it, from Job 42.

1 Then Job replied to the LORD:

2 “I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

3 You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

4 You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’

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

6 Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

8 So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s request.

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Job 42:5 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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