Job 29:11
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
KJV
Auris audiens beatificabat me, et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi :
Vulgate
ὅτι οὖς ἤκουσεν καὶ ἐμακάρισέν με, ὀφθαλμὸς δὲ ἰδών με ἐξέκλινεν.
LXX
For when the ear heardme, then it blessed me; And when the eye sawme, it gave witness unto me:
ASV
כִּ֤י אֹ֣זֶן שָׁ֭מְעָה וַֽ/תְּאַשְּׁרֵ֑/נִי וְ/עַ֥יִן רָ֝אֲתָ֗ה וַ/תְּעִידֵֽ/נִי
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אָזְנֵ֣י
'zny
noun · 188×
אָעִ֣ידָה
''ydh
verb · 44×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
נִי
ny
verb · 17×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Deut 24:17 — Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
- Job 31:20 — If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
- Luke 4:22 — And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
- Prov 28:12 — When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
- Prov 29:2 — When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.