Job 33:15

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

Key Reflection

In Job 33:15, God emphasizes that He communicates with humanity through various means, often repeatedly, to guide and warn them. Despite these clear attempts at communication, humans may still ignore His messages, highlighting the importance of attentive faithfulness in understanding divine revelation.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

In a dream -This was one of the methods by which the will of God was made known in the early periods of the world; see the notes atJob 4:12-17. And for a fuller account of this method of communicating the divine will, see the introduction to Isaiah, Section 7 (2). In a vision of the night -Notes,Job 4:13; compare the introduction to Isaiah, Section 7 (4). When deep sleep falleth upon men -This may be designed to intimate more distinctly that it was from God. It was not the effect of disturbed and broken rest; not such fancies as come into the mind between sleeping and waking, but the visitations of the divine Spirit in the profoundest repose of the night.

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