Job 33:14

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Summary

Job 33:14

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

God

Job 40:5

Psalm 62:11

Perceiveth

John 3:19

Bible References

God

“Once I have spoken, and I will not answer;
Even twice, and I will add nothing more.”

Once God has spoken;

Twice I have heard this:

That power belongs to God;

Perceiveth

The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.

“Because I called and you refused,
I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;

He said, “Go, and tell this people:
‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive;
Keep on looking, but do not understand.’

In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,

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You will keep on hearing, but will not understand

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You will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

And Jesus, aware of this, *said to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart?

And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.