ACV - Job - 33

33:1  However, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, and hearken to all my words.

33:2  Behold now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.

33:3  My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart, and that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

33:4  The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

33:5  If thou can, answer thou me. Set thy words in order before me. Stand forth.

33:6  Behold, I am toward God even as thou are. I also am formed out of the clay.

33:7  Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, nor shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.

33:8  Surely thou have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

33:9  I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

33:10  Thou say, Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

33:11  He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.

33:12  Behold, I will answer thee. In this thou are not just, for God is greater than man.

33:13  Why do thou strive against him because he does not give account of any of his matters?

33:14  For God speaks once, yea twice, though man does not regard it.

33:15  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed.

33:16  Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction

33:17  that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

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

33:19  He also is chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones,

33:20  so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

33:21  His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen stick out.

33:22  Yea, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

33:23  If there be with him an agent, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him,

33:24  then God is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.

33:25  His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth.

33:26  He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.

33:27  He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.

33:28  He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.

33:29  Lo, all these things God works twice, yea thrice, with a man,

33:30  to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

33:31  Mark well, O Job, hearken to me. Keep silent, and I will speak.

33:32  If thou have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify thee.

33:33  If not, hearken thou to me. Keep silent, and I will teach thee.