Job 33:14-22
1599 Geneva Bible
14 For God speaketh [a]once or twice, and one seeth it not.
15 In dreams and [b]visions of the night, when sleep falleth upon men, and they sleep upon their beds,
16 Then he openeth the ears of men, even by their corrections, which he [c]had sealed,
17 That he might cause man to turn away from his enterprise, and that he might hide the [d]pride of man,
18 And keep back his soul from the pit, and that his life should not pass by the sword.
19 He is also stricken with sorrow upon his bed, and the grief of his bones is sore,
20 So that his [e]life causeth him to abhor bread, and his soul dainty meat.
21 His flesh faileth that it cannot be seen, and his bones which were not seen, clatter.
22 So his soul draweth to the grave, and his life [f]to the buriers.
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- Job 33:14 Though God by sundry examples of his judgments speak unto man, yet the reason thereof is not known: yea and though God should speak, yet is he not understood.
- Job 33:15 God saith he, speaketh commonly, either by visions to teach us the cause of his judgments, or else by afflictions, or by his messenger.
- Job 33:16 That is, determined to send upon them.
- Job 33:17 He showeth for what end God sendeth afflictions: to beat down man’s pride, and to turn from evil.
- Job 33:20 That is, his painful and miserable life.
- Job 33:22 To them that shall bury him.
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