Job 33:14
New International Version
For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.

New Living Translation
For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it.

English Standard Version
For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.

Berean Standard Bible
For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

King James Bible
For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

New King James Version
For God may speak in one way, or in another, Yet man does not perceive it.

New American Standard Bible
“Indeed God speaks once, Or twice, yet no one notices it.

NASB 1995
“Indeed God speaks once, Or twice, yet no one notices it.

NASB 1977
“Indeed God speaks once, Or twice, yet no one notices it.

Legacy Standard Bible
Indeed God speaks once, Or twice, yet no one perceives it.

Amplified Bible
“For God speaks once, And even twice, yet no one notices it [including you, Job].

Christian Standard Bible
For God speaks time and again, but a person may not notice it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For God speaks time and again, but a person may not notice it.

American Standard Version
For God speaketh once, Yea twice, though man regardeth it not.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because God speaks with one and does not do more with two, and by the lips he is not understood

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For when the Lord speaks once, or a second time,

Contemporary English Version
God speaks in different ways, and we don't always recognize his voice. *

Douay-Rheims Bible
God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.

English Revised Version
For God speaketh once, yea twice, though man regardeth it not.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"God speaks in one way, even in two ways without people noticing it:

Good News Translation
Although God speaks again and again, no one pays attention to what he says.

International Standard Version
"God speaks time and time again — but nobody notices—

JPS Tanakh 1917
For God speaketh in one way, Yea in two, though man perceiveth it not.

Literal Standard Version
For once God speaks, and twice (he does not behold it),

Majority Standard Bible
For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

New American Bible
For God does speak, once, even twice, though you do not see it:

NET Bible
"For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.

New Revised Standard Version
For God speaks in one way, and in two, though people do not perceive it.

New Heart English Bible
For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

Webster's Bible Translation
For God speaketh once, yes twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

World English Bible
For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

Young's Literal Translation
For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.)

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Context
Elihu Rebukes Job
13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks? 14For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices. 15In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,…

Cross References
Genesis 46:2
And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: "Jacob, Jacob!" He said. "Here I am," replied Jacob.

Job 33:29
Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

Job 40:5
I have spoken once, but I have no answer--twice, but I have nothing to add."

Psalm 62:11
God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,

Daniel 7:1
In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.


Treasury of Scripture

For God speaks once, yes twice, yet man perceives it not.

God

Job 40:5
Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

Psalm 62:11
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

perceiveth

2 Chronicles 33:10
And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

Proverbs 1:24,29
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; …

Isaiah 6:9
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

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Job 33
1. Elihu offers himself instead of God to reason with Job
8. He excuses God from giving man an account of his ways, by his greatness
14. God calls man to repentance by visions, by afflictions, and by his ministry
31. He incites Job to attention














(14) For God speaketh once, yea twice.--The two ways are dilated upon (Job 33:15-26). Abimelech (Genesis 20:3) and Daniel (Daniel 4:5) were instances of this first method. (Comp. also Genesis 15:12. &c., Genesis 28:12, &c.)

Verse 14. - For God speaketh once, yea twice. God has his own ways of speaking to man, which are not those that Job has been expecting. He speaks silently and secretly, not in thunders and lightnings, as at Sinai (Exodus 19:16-20), not by extraordinary theophanies, but nevertheless quite as effectually. Yet man perceiveth it not. Man often does net recognize God's action in this silent teaching of his. Man wants something more startling, more sensational. In our Lord's time, the Jews demanded "a sign" - "a sign from heaven;" but no sign of the kind was given them. Job now did not understand that God, whom he called upon to answer him (Job 10:2; Job 13:22; Job 23:5, etc.), was already speaking to him in various ways - by his judgments, by thoughts suggested inwardly to his heart, by the dreams and visions whereof he complained (Job 7:14).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

God
אֵ֑ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

speaks
יְדַבֶּר־ (yə·ḏab·ber-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

in one [way]
בְאַחַ֥ת (ḇə·’a·ḥaṯ)
Preposition-b | Number - feminine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

and in another,
וּ֝בִשְׁתַּ֗יִם (ū·ḇiš·ta·yim)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Number - fd
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

[yet] no one
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

notices.
יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃ (yə·šū·ren·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7789: To spy out, survey, lurk for, care for


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