욥기 4:12의 주석

Now a word was conveyed secretly to me He returns to his rebuke with which he has been chastising him till now: Why are you crying? “Remember now who was innocent that perished...As I have seen, etc.” And concerning you a word of prophecy was secretly conveyed to me, [lit. was stolen to me], from the expression like a stolen thing, because the Holy Spirit does not reveal itself to the prophets of the heathens in public. This is analogous to a king who had a wife and a mistress. When he would go to his wife, he would go in public, but to his mistress, he would go clandestinely and stealthily. So it is with the Holy One, blessed be He. Regarding the prophets of the heathens [Scripture states:] (Gen. 20:3), “And God came to Abimelech in the dream of the night,” and similarly (ibid. 31: 24), “And God came to Laban the Aramean in the dream of the night”; to Balaam (Num. 24:4), “who falls, but his eyes are open” [in Gen. Rabbah 52:5 (Num. 22:20), “And God came to Balaam at night”]; to Eliphaz, “in the visions of the night.” But concerning the prophets of Israel it is written (ibid. 12:8): “With him I speak mouth to mouth manifestly and not with riddles.” In Midrash Tanchuma, I found it emended [See Tanchuma Balak 8, Tanchuma Buber Vayishlach 24.]

Eliphaz now relates that, in a prophetic vision, it had been revealed to him that no man can be absolutely perfect and beyond punishment and that the transient suffering of the righteous prevents their perdition. ⁶Malbim asserts that the vision seen by Eliphaz had been indistinct, as befits a lesser prophet, one whose standing is far below that of Moses, the master of the prophets. For God has not revealed the full answer to the question of the suffering of the righteous to anyone, not even to Moses. Malbim adds that the account of the vision accords with the description of lesser prophecy—'prophecy through a clouded mirror'—given by Maimonides in Chapter 7 of The Halachot of the Principles of the Torah:
In what respects was the prophecy of Moses distinguished from that of the other prophets? All the prophets received their inspired messages in a dream or in a vision; Moses while awake and standing...All the prophets received their messages through the medium of an angel; Moses realized the prophetic message clearly, without riddle and without parable...All the prophets (when receiving their messages) were filled with fear and consternation and became physically weak; Moses was vigorous enough to comprehend the words of prophecy while retaining his normal state.

Now [in] the expression, “And my ear grasped a bit of it,” שֶׁמֶץ, means a bit of the spirit of understanding.