Job 4:12
A word quietly crept up on me; a whisper reached my ear.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
In Context
11Even a lion dies from lack of food, and the lioness' cubs are scattered.
13Troubling thoughts came to me in nightmares when you fall into a deep sleep.
Cross References
Job 26:14This is just a little of all he does—what we hear of him is hardly a whisper, so who can understand his thunderous power?”
1 Corinthians 13:12At the moment we peer into a mirror's dim reflection, but then we shall see face to face. For now I only have partial knowledge, but then I shall know completely, just as I am completely known.
Matthew Henry on Job 4:8-12
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. Eliphaz here advances another argument to prove… Read the whole commentary →