Job 33:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

Job 33:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
2 Chronicles 33:10
And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
Psalms 62:11
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
Job 33:29
Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
Luke 24:25
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Agency Atheism Attributes of God Conviction Deafness God Godlessness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-18)

Job had complained that God kept him wholly in the dark concerning the meaning of his dealings with him, and therefore concluded he dealt with him as his enemy. “No,” says Elihu, “he speaks to you, but you do not perceive him; so that the fault is yours, not his; and he is designing your real good even in those dispensations which you put this harsh construction upon.” Observe in general, 1. What…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. 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).