Christian Standard Bible
Job 33:14
14For God speaks time and again, but a person may not notice it.
Job 33:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
- New International Version (NIV)For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For God may speak in one way, or in another, Yet man does not perceive it.
Context of Job 33:14
12But I tell you that you are wrong in this matter, since God is greater than man. 13Why do you take him to court for not answering anything a person asks? For God speaks time and again, but a person may not notice it. 15In a dream, a vision in the night, when deep sleep comes over people as they slumber on their beds, 16he uncovers their ears and terrifies them with warnings,
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כִּֽי־בְאַחַ֥ת יְדַבֶּר־אֵ֑ל וּ֝בִשְׁתַּ֗יִם לֹ֣א יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 33:14
- Job 40:5I have spoken once, and I will not reply; twice, but now I can add nothing.
- Psalms 62:11God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: strength belongs to God,
- 2 Chronicles 33:10The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they didn’t listen.
- Proverbs 1:24Since I called out and you refused, extended my hand and no one paid attention,
- Isaiah 6:9And he replied: Go! Say to these people: Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.
- Matthew 13:14Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: You will listen and listen, but never understand; you will look and look, but never perceive.
- Mark 8:17Aware of this, he said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact you have no bread? Don’t you understand or comprehend? Do you have hardened hearts?
- Luke 24:25He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
- John 3:19This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
Commentaries on Job 33:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14For God speaketh once - Though he will not be summoned to the bar of his creatures, nor condescend to detail the reasons of his conduct, which they could not comprehend, yet he so acts, in the main, that the operation of his hand and the designs of his counsel may sufficiently appear, provided men had their eyes open upon his ways, and their hearts open to receive his influence. Elihu, having made the general statement that God would not come to the bar…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14For God speaketh once - The object of what is here said is, to show the reason why God brings affliction upon people, or to explain the principles of his government which Elihu supposed had been sadly misunder stood by Job and his friends. The reason why he brings affliction, Elihu says, is because all other means of reclaiming and restraining people fail. He communicates his will to them; he speaks to them again and again in dreams and visions; he warns…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-18Verses 14-18 God speaks to us by conscience, by providences, and by ministers; of all these Elihu discourses. There was not then, that we know of, any Divine revelation in writing, though now it is our principal guide. When God designs men's good, by the convictions and dictates of their own consciences, he opens the heart, as Lydia's, and opens the ears, so that conviction finds or forces its way in. The end and design of these admonitions are to keep…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. Translate, "Yet, man regardeth it not"; or rather, as Umbreit, "Yea, twice (He repeats the warning)--if man gives no heed" to the first warning. Elihu implies that God's reason for sending affliction is because, when God has communicated His will in various ways, man in prosperity has not heeded it; God therefore must try what affliction will effect (Joh 15:2; Psa 62:11; Is 28:10, 13).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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