Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear - Referring to the indistinct views which we have of anything by merely hearing of it, compared with the clear apprehension which is furnished by sight. Job had had such views of God as one may obtain by being told of him; he now had such views as are furnished by the sight. The meaning is, that his views of God before were dark and obscure.
But now mine eye seeth thee - We are not to suppose that Job means to say that he actually "saw" God, but that his apprehensions of him were clear and bright "as if" he did. There is no evidence that God appeared to Job in any visible form. He is said, indeed, to have spoken from the whirlwind, but no visible manifestation of Yahweh is mentioned.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Job 42:5:
Job 1:1
Job 19:27
Proverbs 1:7
Proverbs 30:3
Isaiah 6:5
Micah 6:2
Zephaniah 1:7
Malachi 1:14
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