Job 33
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1“Listen to my words, Job; pay attention to what I have to say.1"But now, O Job, listen to my words, and hear everything I have to say!
2Now that I have begun to speak, let me continue.2See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.
3I speak with all sincerity; I speak the truth.3My words come from the uprightness of my heart, and my lips will utter knowledge sincerely.
4For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5Answer me, if you can; make your case and take your stand.5Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!
6Look, you and I both belong to God. I, too, was formed from clay.6Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
7So you don’t need to be afraid of me. I won’t come down hard on you.7Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.
8“You have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard your very words.8"Indeed, you have said in my hearing (I heard the sound of the words!):
9You said, ‘I am pure; I am without sin; I am innocent; I have no guilt.9I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
10God is picking a quarrel with me, and he considers me his enemy.10Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!
11He puts my feet in the stocks and watches my every move.’11He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.'
12“But you are wrong, and I will show you why. For God is greater than any human being.12Now in this, you are not right--I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.
13So why are you bringing a charge against him? Why say he does not respond to people’s complaints?13Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person's words?
14For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it.14"For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.
15He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds.15In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.
16He whispers in their ears and terrifies them with warnings.16Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings,
17He makes them turn from doing wrong; he keeps them from pride.17to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person's pride.
18He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death.18He spares a person's life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.
19“Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds, with ceaseless aching in their bones.19Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,
20They lose their appetite for even the most delicious food.20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
21Their flesh wastes away, and their bones stick out.21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
22They are at death’s door; the angels of death wait for them.22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.
23“But if an angel from heaven appears— a special messenger to intercede for a person and declare that he is upright—23If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;
24he will be gracious and say, ‘Rescue him from the grave, for I have found a ransom for his life.’24and if God is gracious to him and says, 'Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,'
25Then his body will become as healthy as a child’s, firm and youthful again.25then his flesh is restored like a youth's; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.
26When he prays to God, he will be accepted. And God will receive him with joy and restore him to good standing.26He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God's face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.
27He will declare to his friends, ‘I sinned and twisted the truth, but it was not worth it.27That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
28God rescued me from the grave, and now my life is filled with light.’28He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!'
29“Yes, God does these things again and again for people.29"Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,
30He rescues them from the grave so they may enjoy the light of life.30to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
31Mark this well, Job. Listen to me, for I have more to say.31Pay attention, Job--listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
32But if you have anything to say, go ahead. Speak, for I am anxious to see you justified.32If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.
33But if not, then listen to me. Keep silent and I will teach you wisdom!”33If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."
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Job 32
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