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33:1  “However now, Job, please hear my speech, And give ear to all my words.
33:2  Behold now, I open my mouth; My tongue in my mouth speaks.
33:3  My words are from the uprightness of my heart, And my lips speak knowledge sincerely.
33:4  The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
33:5  Respond to me if you can; Arrange yourselves before me, take your stand.
33:6  Behold, I belong to God like you; I too have been formed out of the clay.
33:7  Behold, no dread of me should terrify you, Nor should my pressure weigh heavily on you.
33:8  “Surely you have spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the sound of your speech:
33:9  ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no guilt in me.
33:10  Behold, He finds reasons for opposition against me; He counts me as His enemy.
33:11  He puts my feet in the stocks; He keeps watch over all my paths.’
33:12  Behold, let me answer you; you are not right in this, For God is greater than mortal man.
33:13  “Why do you contend against Him? For He does not give an answer for all His doings.
33:14  Indeed God speaks once, Or twice, yet no one perceives it.
33:15  In a dream, a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, While they slumber in their beds,
33:16  Then He opens the ears of men, And seals in their discipline,
33:17  That He may turn man aside from his conduct, And keep man from pride;
33:18  He holds back his soul from the pit, And his life from passing over to death by a weapon.
33:19  “Man is also reproved with pain on his bed, And with unceasing contention in his bones,
33:20  So that his life loathes bread, And his soul favorite food.
33:21  His flesh wastes away from sight, And his bones which were not seen stick out.
33:22  Then his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to those who bring death.
33:23  “If there is an angel as mediator for him, One out of a thousand, To declare to a man what is right for him,
33:24  Then let him be gracious to him, and say, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found atonement’;
33:25  Let his flesh become fresher than in youth, Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;
33:26  Then he will entreat God, and He will accept him, And he will see His face with joyful shouts, And He may restore His righteousness to man.
33:27  He will sing to men and say, ‘I have sinned and perverted what is right, But He has not done what is due to me.
33:28  He has redeemed my soul from passing into the pit, And my life shall see the light.’
33:29  “Behold, God does all these things twice, three times with men,
33:30  To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of life.
33:31  Pay attention, O Job, listen to me; Keep silent, and I will speak.
33:32  Then if you have any speech, respond to me; Speak, for I desire to prove you righteous.
33:33  If not, listen to me; Keep silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”