CPDV - Job - 33

33:1  Therefore, hear my speeches, Job, and listen to all my words.

33:2  Behold, I have opened my mouth; let my tongue speak along with my throat.

33:3  My words are from my simple heart, and my lips will speak a pure judgment.

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

33:5  If you can, answer me, and oppose me to my face.

33:6  Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.

33:7  So, truly, do not let my wonders terrify you, and do not let my eloquence be burdensome to you.

33:8  For you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying:

33:9  “I am clean and without sin; I am immaculate, and there is no iniquity in me.

33:10  Yet he has discovered blame in me, and so he has treated me like his enemy.

33:11  He has put my feet in fetters; he has kept watch over all my ways.”

33:12  Therefore, it is for this reason that you have not been justified. For I tell you that God is greater than man.

33:13  Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?

33:14  God speaks once, and he does not repeat the same thing a second time.

33:15  Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in their beds,

33:16  then, he opens the ears of men, and, educating them, he teaches discipline,

33:17  so that he may divert a man from the things that he is doing, and may free him from pride,

33:18  rescuing his soul from corruption and his life from passing away by the sword.

33:19  Likewise, he rebukes by sorrow in bed, and he causes all of his bones to become weak.

33:20  Bread becomes abominable to him in his life, and, to his soul, the meat which before he desired.

33:21  His body will waste away, and his bones, which had been covered, will be revealed.

33:22  His soul has approached corruption, and his life has drawn near to what is deadly.

33:23  If there were an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare the fairness of the man,

33:24  he 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.

33:25  His body is consumed by suffering. Let him return to the days of his youth.”

33:26  He 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.

33:27  He will consider mankind, and he will say: “I have sinned and truly I have offended, yet I was not treated as I deserved.”

33:28  He has freed his soul from continuing into destruction, so that, in living, it may see the light.

33:29  Behold, all these things God works three times within each one,

33:30  so that he may revive their souls from corruption and enlighten them with the light of life.

33:31  Pay attention Job, and listen to me; and remain silent, while I speak.

33:32  Yet, if you have anything to say, answer me and speak, for I want you to be treated justly.

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