Job 42:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear, but now my [spiritual] eye sees You.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

My ears had heard about you, but now my eyes have seen you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee: but now my eye seeth thee.

Job 42:5 Cross References

Job 26:14

These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Job 28:22

Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

Job 33:16

then he opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings,

Job 4:12

“Now a word came stealing to me; my ear received the whisper of it.

Job 42:6

therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Isaiah 6:1

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Habakkuk 3:2

O Lord, I have heard of your renown, and I stand in awe, O Lord, of your work. In our own time revive it; in our own time make it known; in wrath may you remember mercy.

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, himself God, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.

John 12:41

Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke about him.

John 12:45

And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.

Romans 10:17

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.