◄ Job 4:12 ►
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Good News Translation
Once a message came quietly, so quietly I could hardly hear it.

New Revised Standard Version
“Now a word came stealing to me, my ear received the whisper of it.

Contemporary English Version
A secret was told to me in a faint whisper--

New American Bible
A word was stealthily brought to me, my ear caught a whisper of it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.

a thing.

Psalm 62:11 God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power belongeth to God,

secretly.

1 Corinthians 13:12 We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
…11The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad. 12Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.13In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,…
Cross References
Job 26:14
Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

Job 33:15
By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:

Job 4:11
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