Job 13:1
“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.
2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
3 Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.
- KJV
- Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
- WEB
- “Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
- ASV
- Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], Mine ear hath heard and understood it.
- DARBY
- Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
- BLB
- [“] Behold, all [this] my eye has seen; my ear has heard and understood it.
- ÅB
- Se, alt sammen har mitt øye sett, mitt øre hørt og merket seg.
- OTB
- "Se, mitt øye har sett alt dette,
Mitt øre har hørt og forstått det. - B1930
- Se, alt sammen har mitt øie sett, mitt øre hørt og merket sig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 5:9–16
the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
Read in contextJob 12:9–25
Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
Read in contextJob 15:17–18
Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,
Read in context1 John 1:3
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
Read in contextJob 8:8–10
Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
Read in contextPsalms 78:3–4
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Read in contextJob 42:3–6
You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
Read in contextJob 4:12
Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
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