Job 4:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

"Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 26:14 : 14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
  • Ps 62:11 : 11 God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this, That power belongs to God.
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

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  • Job 4:13-16
    4 verses
    76%

    13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

    14 Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.

    15 Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.

    16 It stood still, but I couldn't discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

  • 1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.

  • 4 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.

  • 11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me:

  • 8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

  • 8 "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

  • 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

  • 11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

  • 10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

  • 4 As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was in my tent;

  • Job 42:3-5
    3 verses
    70%

    3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

    4 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

    5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees you.

  • 3 The eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

  • 10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

  • Job 33:14-16
    3 verses
    69%

    14 For God speaks once, Yes twice, though man pays no attention.

    15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumbering on the bed;

    16 Then he opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction,

  • 11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward you?

  • 2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

  • 17 Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

  • 12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, As it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • 16 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

  • 27 And my heart has been secretly enticed, My hand threw a kiss from my mouth:

  • 20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

  • 25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

  • 21 "Men listened to me, waited, And kept silence for my counsel.

  • Ps 38:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

    14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, In whose mouth are no reproofs.

  • 3 For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.

  • 23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

  • 17 For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light.

  • 12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, Then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, Then I would have hid myself from him.

  • 13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, While they conspire together against me, They plot to take away my life.

  • 1 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,

  • 2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

  • 17 "I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:

  • 11 Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle.

  • 4 My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

  • 10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

  • 18 Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you shown me their doings.

  • 26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • 33 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, And will be at ease, without fear of harm."

  • 3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.

  • 20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

  • 4 He says, who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:

  • 7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.