God Speaks Through Dreams Sometimes

Job 33:14 "For God speaketh once, yea twice, [yet man] perceiveth it not."

Eliihu was trying to say that God would not answer Job. God
speaks to man on His own terms. Elihu believed that God speaks, and
man does not understand.

Job 33:15 "In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep
falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;"

In the very earliest of times, this might have been true to some
extent. It was not true in the case of Adam. God came in the cool of
the evening and fellowshipped with Adam. I would believe that Elihu
believed this to be the only communication that God had with man,
simply because it was the way He communicated with him. We all believe
in the things that have happened to us personally. God does use dreams
and visions, but He uses many other ways, as well.

Job 33:16 "Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their
instruction,"

This was not speaking of the physical ear. It was speaking of the
ear of their understanding. This was speaking of God speaking to the
spirit of man, and giving him instructions.

Job 33:17 "That he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, and hide
pride from man."

Elihu believed that God would re-direct a person's life through
dreams and night visions. Elihu believed that Job was a prideful man.
Job's friends had thought this, too. They all believed that, because
Job had been a wealthy man, and God had taken all of it away.

Job 33:18 "He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life
from perishing by the sword."

He again said, that God would warn man in a dream not to go to a
battle, or get killed, if he would listen.

Job 33:19 "He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the
multitude of his bones with strong [pain]:"

Elihu said, that the pain and suffering that Job had been feeling
on his bed was a chastisement from God. He said, that even that was a
message from God to Job.

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