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Job 33

¹Therefore, hear my speeches, Job, and listen to all my words.

²Behold, I have opened my mouth; let my tongue speak along with my throat.

³My words are from my simple heart, and my lips will speak a pure judgment.

⁴The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

⁵If you can, answer me, and oppose me to my face.

⁶Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.

⁷So, truly, do not let my wonders terrify you, and do not let my eloquence be burdensome to you.

⁸For you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying:

⁹“I am clean and without sin; I am immaculate, and there is no iniquity in me.

¹⁰Yet he has discovered blame in me, and so he has treated me like his enemy.

¹¹He has put my feet in fetters; he has kept watch over all my ways.”

¹²Therefore, it is for this reason that you have not been justified. For I tell you that God is greater than man.

¹³Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?

¹⁴God speaks once, and he does not repeat the same thing a second time.

¹⁵Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in their beds,

¹⁶then, he opens the ears of men, and, educating them, he teaches discipline,

¹⁷so that he may divert a man from the things that he is doing, and may free him from pride,

¹⁸rescuing his soul from corruption and his life from passing away by the sword.

¹⁹Likewise, he rebukes by sorrow in bed, and he causes all of his bones to become weak.

²⁰Bread becomes abominable to him in his life, and, to his soul, the meat which before he desired.

²¹His body will waste away, and his bones, which had been covered, will be revealed.

²²His soul has approached corruption, and his life has drawn near to what is deadly.

²³If there were an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare the fairness of the man,

²⁴he will have mercy on him, and he will say, “Free him, so that he will not descend to destruction. I have found a reason to be favorable to him.

²⁵His body is consumed by suffering. Let him return to the days of his youth.”

²⁶He will beg pardon from God, and he will be soothing to him; and he will look upon his face in jubilation, and he will restore his justice to man.

²⁷He will consider mankind, and he will say: “I have sinned and truly I have offended, yet I was not treated as I deserved.”

²⁸He has freed his soul from continuing into destruction, so that, in living, it may see the light.

²⁹Behold, all these things God works three times within each one,

³⁰so that he may revive their souls from corruption and enlighten them with the light of life.

³¹Pay attention Job, and listen to me; and remain silent, while I speak.

³²Yet, if you have anything to say, answer me and speak, for I want you to be treated justly.

³³But if you do not have anything to say, then listen to me. Be quiet and I will teach you wisdom.

Job 33

¹Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

²Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.

³My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.

⁴The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

⁵If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.

⁶Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.

⁷But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.

⁸Now thou hast said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words:

⁹I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.

¹⁰Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.

¹¹He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.

¹²Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

¹³Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?

¹⁴God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.

¹⁵By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:

¹⁶Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.

¹⁷That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.

¹⁸Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.

¹⁹He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.

²⁰Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.

²¹His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.

²²His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.

²³If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness,

²⁴He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.

²⁵His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the days of his youth.

²⁶He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.

²⁷He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.

²⁸He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.

²⁹Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one.

³⁰That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.

³¹Attend, Job, and hearken to me, and hold thy peace, whilst I speak.

³²But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would have thee to appear just.

³³And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.