Job 42:5-6

5. hearing of the ear— (Ps 18:44, Margin). Hearing and seeing are often in antithesis (Job 29:11; Ps 18:8).

seeth—not God's face (Ex 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.

6. myself—rather "I abhor," and retract the rash speeches I made against thee (Job 42:3, 4) [UMBREIT].

Job 42:7-17. EPILOGUE, in prose.