Holy Scripture
Job 42:5
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“I have heard Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee. 5. By these words he doubtless plainly declares, that as far as sight is superior to hearing, so far does the progress also he had made through suffering differ from that which he was before. And because he had beheld more plainly the light of t…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; But now mine eye has seen thee.
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3For who is he that hides counsel from thee? Or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? And who will tell me what I knew not, Great and wonderful things which I understood not?
4But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: And I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.
— Job 42:5 —
6Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: And I esteem myself dust and ashes.
7And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: For ye have not said anything true before me, As my servant Job has.