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