Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 33:14

14. For God speaketh once, yea twice , yet man perceiveth it not .

Or, Nevertheless, as this Particle is sometimes used. Although God doth not give men an account of his matters, yet he doth that for them which is much better and which is sufficient for them.

To wit, unto men by way of instruction or admonition, as appears from the following Verses.

i. e. Again and again, or oftimes, this number being sometimes put indefinitely, as below v. 29. 2 King. 6. 10. Psal. 62. 11. When one speaking doth not awaken men, God is graciously pleased to give them another admonition. So God though he will not gratifie mens curiosity in enquiring into his hidden Judgments, yet he will supply their necessity and acquaint them with their duty and interest so far as is fit, and they are concerned to know.

Which is easily and fitly understood here from the former branch of this Verse, as being the Person to whom God speaketh, as appears from the next Verse. And such supplements are not unusual in the Hebrew Language, and especially in these Poetical Books, where the Stile is very concise and short, and many things to be understood.

Through his inadvertency or negligence or dulness. Man therefore hath no reason to charge God as if he were deficient in his notices and manifestations of his will, but to accuse himself for not improving revealed things to his own advantage but desiring rather to pry into God's secret counsels, which was Job's errour.