OLD TESTAMENT

Job 33:14

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

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Verse 14. Time. One decision ought to suffice; and God had declared Job innocent. Calmet. 1:8. and so forth Worthington.—His decrees are immutable; and yet thou wouldst have him to explain his conduct, as if he could be under a mistake, and correct it. He manifests his will, and it is our business to be attentive. We cannot expect that he should speak twice, though he does so frequently in his great mercy. Hebrew “God speaketh once, and he regardeth not a second time.” Calmet.—Septuagint “But the second time, (15) a dream,” and so forth Bible.—Eliu specifies three methods by which God declares his will; (verse 26) 1. By vision; 2. by afflictions; 3. by the voice of angels, or of preachers, verse 19, 23.

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