Holy Scripture

Job 33:16

A church father on this verse
“Then He openeth the ears of men, and teaching, instructeth them with discipline. For when they are dead to outward objects, they hear with open ears the causes which come before their inward judgment. And when they consider minutely with themselves either their open punishments, or their secret judgments, they cease n…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII

Source: Septuagint

Original

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

Modern

Preparing…

Teens

Preparing…

Kids

Preparing…

In context

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

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):

— Job 33:16 —

17To turn a man from unrighteousness, And he delivers his body from a fall.

18He spares also his soul from death, And suffers him not to fall in war.

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