Job 42:5
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
KJV
Auditu auris audivi te : nunc autem oculus meus videt te.
Vulgate
ἀκοὴν μὲν ὠτὸς ἤκουόν σου τὸ πρότερον, νυνὶ δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἑόρακέν σε.
LXX
I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:
ASV
לְ/שֵֽׁמַע אֹ֥זֶן שְׁמַעְתִּ֑י/ךָ וְ֝/עַתָּ֗ה עֵינִ֥/י רָאָֽתְ/ךָ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אָזְנֵ֣י
'zny
noun · 188×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
עַתָּ֗ה
'th
adverb · 433×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×
שֵׁ֣מַע
shm'
noun · 18×
Theophany
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation. By evangelical humiliation I mean a sense that a Christian has of his own utter insufficiency, despicableness, and odiousness, with an answerable frame of heart. This is quite a different thing from legal humiliation, which is merely the terror of God's wrath without a sense of one's own vileness as a sinner against…
Cross-references
- Acts 7:55 — But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
- Deut 8:2 — And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep
- Eph 1:17 — 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:
- Exod 3:6 — Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
- Ezek 16:61 — Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
- Isa 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.
- Isa 6:5 — Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
- Isa 6:5 — Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
- Isa 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
- Job 4:12 — Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
- Job 23:8 — Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
- Job 23:10 — But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
- Job 26:14 — Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
- Job 28:22 — Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
- Job 33:16 — Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
- John 1:18 — No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
- John 12:41 — These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
- John 12:45 — And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
- Luke 5:8 — When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
- Num 12:6 — And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
- Phil 3:9 — And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
- Rom 10:17 — So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.