Job 42:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I have heard of thee, &c.— It is plain that here is same privilege intended, which Job had never enjoyed before, and which he calls a sight of God. He had heard of him by the hearing of the ear, or the tradition delivered down from his forefathers: but he had now a clear and sensible perception of his being and divine perfections: some light thrown in upon the mind, which carried its own evidence with it, and of which, perhaps, we can form no notion; but which to him had all the certainty and clearness even of sight itself: In short, some manifestation of the Deity made to him in vision, such as the prophets had, and from whence they derived their very name of Seers. There is a pleasure in observing the accomplishment of that wish of Job's, chap. Job 19:23 when we peruse this book; an accomplishment in a higher and better sense than he himself could possibly have hoped for when he made it. Oh, that my words were now written, &c.! Had they been graven on a rock, they might have remained for some few ages; but in this divine poem they will live for ever. Peters.