God’s Word Translation
Job 33:14
14“God speaks in one way, even in two ways without people noticing 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
12You aren’t right about this! I’ve got an answer for you: God is greater than any mortal. 13Why do you quarrel with him since he doesn’t answer any questions? “God speaks in one way, even in two ways without people noticing it: 15In a dream, a prophetic vision at night, when people fall into a deep sleep, when they sleep on their beds, 16he opens people’s 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 spoke once, but I can’t answer— twice, but not again.”
- Psalms 62:11God has spoken once. I have heard it ⌞said⌟ twice: “Power belongs to God.
- 2 Chronicles 33:10When the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, they wouldn’t even pay attention.
- Proverbs 1:24“I called, and you refused to listen. I stretched out my hands to you, and no one paid attention.
- Isaiah 6:9And he said, “Go and tell these people, ‘No matter how closely you listen, you’ll never understand. No matter how closely you look, you’ll never see.’
- Matthew 13:14So they make Isaiah’s prophecy come true: ‘You will hear clearly but never understand. You will see clearly but never comprehend.
- Mark 8:17Jesus knew what they were saying and asked them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you don’t have any bread? Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you catch on? Are your minds closed?
- Luke 24:25Then Jesus said to them, “How foolish you are! You’re so slow to believe everything the prophets said!
- John 3:19This is why people are condemned: The light came into the world. Yet, people loved the dark rather than the light because their actions 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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