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King James Version

Job 13:1

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ear, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Understanding;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ear;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 8;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Look, my eyes have seen all this;
Hebrew Names Version
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
English Standard Version
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
New Century Version
"Now my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood it.
New English Translation
"Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.
Amplified Bible
[Job continued:] "Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
New American Standard Bible
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
World English Bible
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Behold, my eye has seen all this;My ear has heard and understood it.
Berean Standard Bible
Behold, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.
Contemporary English Version
Job Continues I know and understand every bit of this.
Complete Jewish Bible
"All this I have seen with my own eyes; with my own ears I have heard and understood it.
Darby Translation
Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Easy-to-Read Version
"I have seen all this before. I have already heard everything you say. I understand all these things.
George Lamsa Translation
Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
Good News Translation
Everything you say, I have heard before. I understand it all; I know as much as you do. I'm not your inferior. <
Lexham English Bible
"Look, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it.
Literal Translation
Behold, my eye has seen all this; my ear has heard and understood it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Lo, all this haue I sene with myne eye, herde with myne eare, & vnderstonde it.
American Standard Version
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, Mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, my eye has seen all this, word of it has come to my ear, and I have knowledge of it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
King James Version (1611)
Loe, mine eye hath seene all this, mine eare hath heard and vnderstood it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Lo, all [this] haue I seene with mine eye, heard with mine eare, and vnderstande it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard them.
English Revised Version
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! myn iye siy alle thingis, and myn eere herde; and Y vndurstood alle thingis.
Update Bible Version
Look, my eye has seen all [this], My ear has heard and understood it.
Webster's Bible Translation
Lo, my eye hath seen all [this], my ear hath heard and understood it.
New King James Version
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
New Living Translation
"Look, I have seen all this with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears, and now I understand.
New Life Bible
"See, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
New Revised Standard
"Look, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! all this , hath mine own eye seen, - Mine ear hath heard and understood it:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.
Revised Standard Version
"Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
Young's Literal Translation
Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
THE MESSAGE
"Yes, I've seen all this with my own eyes, heard and understood it with my very own ears. Everything you know, I know, so I'm not taking a backseat to any of you. I'm taking my case straight to God Almighty; I've had it with you—I'm going directly to God. You graffiti my life with lies. You're a bunch of pompous quacks! I wish you'd shut your mouths— silence is your only claim to wisdom.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.

Contextual Overview

1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? 10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lo: Job 5:9-16, Job 12:9-25, Job 42:3-6

ear: Job 4:12, Job 5:27, Job 8:8-10, Job 15:17, Job 15:18, Psalms 78:3, Psalms 78:4, 1 John 1:3

Cross-References

Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Genesis 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
Genesis 21:33
And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord , the everlasting God.
Joshua 10:40
So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.
Joshua 18:5
And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
1 Samuel 27:10
And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
2 Samuel 24:7
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this],.... Or "all those things" h he had been discoursing of, concerning the wisdom and power of God, and his friends also; some of these he had seen instances of, he had been an eyewitness of them, and could give an ocular testimony to them; and others he had discerned with the eyes of his understanding, being opened and enlightened, and had a clear and distinct view of them, so that he had seen and knew as much of these things as any of them had. Some i interpret it "all" other things, pertaining to the same subject; by what he had said, it might be concluded he knew more; this was but a sample or specimen of his knowledge, which, when observed, it might be perceived what an understanding he had in such divine things: the words are indeed absolute, "my eye hath seen all things" k, which must not be taken in the largest and comprehensive sense of all things to be seen, heard, and understood; for though Job's knowledge was very great, yet it did not take so great a compass as this; many things in nature his eye had not seen, others in providence he could not discern, and but a small portion of God, of his nature, perfections, ways, and works, was known by him, as he himself confesses elsewhere, Job 26:14; this therefore must be limited and restrained to the subject matter in hand, and to what he and his friends had been treating of:

mine ear hath heard; some things he had knowledge of by the report of others, from his forefathers, his ancestors, men of capacity and probity, that could be credited, and safely depended on, and even some things by revelation from God; for if Eliphaz his friend had an heavenly vision, and a divine revelation, which his ear received a little of, why may it not be thought that Job also was sometimes favoured with visions and revelations from God, whereby he became more intimately acquainted with divine and spiritual things?

and understood it; that is, what he had seen and heard; some things may be seen, and yet not known what they are; and other things may be heard, and not understood; but Job had an understanding of what he had seen with his own eyes, or had received by revelation, human or divine: and all this is introduced with a "lo" or "behold"; not as a note of admiration at his knowledge, though the things known by him were wonderful, but as a note of attention to them, and to his remark on them, and as expressive of the certainty of his sight, hearing, and understanding of these things.

h כל אלה "omnia haec", V. L. Tigurine version, Beza, Michaelis; so Vatablus, Mercerus, Piscator, Codurcus. i "Alia omnia", Schmidt. k "Omnia", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Bolducius, Cocceius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this - I have seen illustrations of all that I have said, or that you have said about the methods of divine providence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIII

Job defends himself against the accusations of his friends,

and accuses them of endeavouring to pervert truth, 1-8.

Threatens them with God's judgments, 9-12.

Begs some respite, and expresses strong confidence in God,

13-19.

He pleads with God, and deplores his severe trials and

sufferings, 20-28.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIII

Verse Job 13:1. Lo, mine eye hath seen all this] Ye have brought nothing new to me; I know those maxims as well as you: nor have you any knowledge of which I am not possessed.


 
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