Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
hearing of the ear— (Psalms 18:44, Margin). Hearing and seeing are often in antithesis (Job 29:11; Psalms 18:8).
seeth—not God's face (Exodus 33:20), but His presence in the veil of a dark cloud (Job 38:1). Job implies also that, besides this literal seeing, he now saw spiritually what he had indistinctly taken on hearsay before God's infinite wisdom. He "now" proves this; he had seen in a literal sense before, at the beginning of God's speech, but he had not seen spiritually till "now" at its close.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 42:5:
Job 31:37
Job 32:8
Job 42:2
Isaiah 6:5
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