22 The and the have “and he does not repeat it,” a reading of the text as it is, according to E. Dhorme (Job, 403). But his argument is based on another root with this meaning—a root which does not exist (see L. Dennefeld, 48 [1939]: 175). The verse is saying that God does speak to man.

In other versions

For God speaks in one way,

and in two, though man does not perceive it.

In a dream, in a vision of the night,

when deep sleep falls on men,

while they slumber on their beds,

For God does speak—now one way, now another—

though no one perceives it.

In a dream, in a vision of the night,

when deep sleep falls on people

as they slumber in their beds,

For God speaks time and again,

but a person may not notice it.

In a dream, a vision in the night,

when deep sleep comes over people

as they slumber on their beds,

For God speaks again and again,

though people do not recognize it.

He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night,

when deep sleep falls on people

as they lie in their beds.

Indeed, God speaks in one way,

even in two, yet someone does not perceive it.

“In a dream, a vision of the night,

when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed,

For God speaketh once,

Yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

In a dream, in a vision of the night,

When deep sleep falleth upon men,

In slumberings upon the bed;

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