LEB - Job - 33

33:1  “But now, please hear my speeches, Job, and hear all my words.

33:2  Please look, I open my mouth; my tongue in my mouth speaks.

33:3  My words declare my heart’s uprightness, and my lips sincerely speak ⌞what my lips know⌟.

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

33:5  “If you are able, answer me. Present your argument ⌞before me⌟; take your stand.

33:6  Look, before God ⌞I am like you⌟; I myself was also formed from clay.

33:7  Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you.

33:8  “Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words:

33:9  ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no guilt in me.

33:10  Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

33:11  he puts my feet in the block; he watches all my paths.’

33:12  “Look, in this you are not right—I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.

33:13  Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person’s words?

33:14  Indeed, God speaks in one way, even in two, yet someone does not perceive it.

33:15  “In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed,

33:16  then he opens the ear of men, and ⌞he frightens them with a warning⌟

33:17  to turn human beings aside from their deeds, and he keeps man from pride.

33:18  He spares his life from the pit and his life from passing over the river of death.

33:19  “And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even with the strife of his bones continually,

33:20  ⌞so that⌟ his life loathes bread, and his inner self loathes ⌞appetizing food⌟.

33:21  His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, which are invisible, are bared.

33:22  And ⌞he⌟ draws near to the pit and his life to the killers.

33:23  “If there is a messenger beside him, a mediator, one of a thousand, to declare to a human being his uprightness

33:24  ⌞so that⌟ he is gracious to him, and he says, ‘Deliver him from descending into the pit; I have found a ransom.’

33:25  His flesh is renewed with his youth; he returns to the days of his youthful strength.

33:26  He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.

33:27  “He will sing to men, and he will say, ‘I have sinned and have perverted what is right, and it was not paid back to me.

33:28  He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so ⌞I will enjoy the light⌟.’

33:29  Look, God does all these things twice, three times with a person

33:30  to bring his life back from the pit ⌞so that he may enjoy the light of life⌟.

33:31  “Listen attentively, Job; listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

33:32  If ⌞you have anything to say⌟, ⌞answer me⌟; speak, for I desire ⌞to justify you⌟.

33:33  If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”