Holy Scripture

Job 33:14

A church father on this verse
“Thou contendest against Him, because He hath not replied to thee to all thy words. God will speak once, and will not repeat the same thing a second time. It is natural to the afflicted heart, when it beholds any thing going contrary to its wishes, to wish to gain an answer, if possible, by the voice of God, why things…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII

Source: Septuagint

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14For when the Lord speaks once, Or a second time,

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In context

12For how sayest thou, I am righteous, yet he has not hearkened to me? For he that is above mortals is eternal.

13But thou sayest, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?

— Job 33:14 —

15sending a dream, Or in the meditation of the night (As when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, In slumberings on the bed):

16Then opens he the understanding of men: He scares them with such fearful visions:

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