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Job 33:14
14For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.
Job 33:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it.
Context of Job 33:14
12“But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than any mortal. 13Why do you complain to him that he responds to no one’s words? For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it. 15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds, 16he may speak in their ears and terrify 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 have no answer— twice, but I will say no more.”
- Psalms 62:11One thing God has spoken, two things I have heard: “Power belongs to you, God,
- 2 Chronicles 33:10The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
- Proverbs 1:24But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand,
- Isaiah 6:9He said, “Go and tell this people: “ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
- Matthew 13:14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
- Mark 8:17Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
- 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 verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of 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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