Job 33:14
12 Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
13 Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.
15 In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
16 He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.
- KJV
- For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
- WEB
- For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.
- ASV
- For God speaketh once, Yea twice, [though man] regardeth it not.
- DARBY
- For God speaketh once, and twice, [and man] perceiveth it not
- BLB
- For once God speaks, and twice—one does not perceive it.
- ÅB
- Men én gang taler Gud, ja to ganger hvis mennesket ikke akter på det.
- OTB
- For Gud taler—nå på én måte,
nå på en annen—men ingen legger merke til det. - B1930
- Men én gang taler Gud, ja to ganger hvis mennesket ikke akter på det.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 1:24
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
Read in context2 Chronicles 33:10
And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.
Read in contextPsalms 62:11
God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,
Read in contextJob 33:29
Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,
Read in contextJohn 3:19
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
Read in contextLuke 24:25
Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Read in contextMatthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
Read in contextIsaiah 6:9
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
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