Job 4:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

Job 4:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 26:14
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Psalms 62:11
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 12-21)

Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What comes immediately from God all men will pay a particular deference to, and Job, no doubt, as much as any. Some think Eliphaz had this vision now lately, since he came to Job, putting words into his mouth…

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

(vv. 12)

12. a thing--Hebrew, a “word.” Eliphaz confirms his view by a divine declaration which was secretly and unexpectedly imparted to him. a little--literally, “a whisper”; implying the still silence around, and that more was conveyed than articulate words could utter (Job 26:14; 2Co 12:4).