Job 42:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 10:17 : 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
  • John 1:18 : 18 No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.
  • Isa 6:1 : 1 In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
  • Eph 1:17-18 : 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; 18 And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
  • John 12:41 : 41 (Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)
  • John 12:45 : 45 And he who sees me, sees him who sent me.
  • Acts 7:55-56 : 55 But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God. 56 And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God.
  • Num 12:6-8 : 6 And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house: 8 With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?
  • Job 4:12 : 12 A word was given to me secretly, and the low sound of it came to my ears.
  • Job 23:8-9 : 8 See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him; 9 I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.
  • Job 26:14 : 14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
  • Job 28:22 : 22 Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.
  • Job 33:16 : 16 Then he makes his secrets clear to men, so that they are full of fear at what they see;

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    18Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.

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