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33:1  Therefore, O Job, hear my discourse; listen to all my words.
33:2  Behold, now I open my mouth; my tongue and voice form words.
33:3  I will state directly what is in my mind, my lips shall speak knowledge clearly;
33:4  For the spirit of God made me, the breath of the Almighty keeps me alive.
33:5  If you are able, refute me; draw up your arguments and take your stand.
33:6  Look, I am like you before God, I too was pinched from clay.
33:7  Therefore fear of me should not dismay you, nor should I weigh heavily upon you.
33:8  But you have said in my hearing, as I listened to the sound of your words:
33:9  “I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, there is no guilt in me.
33:10  Yet he invents pretexts against me and counts me as an enemy.
33:11  He puts my feet in the stocks, watches all my paths!”
33:12  In this you are not just, let me tell you; for God is greater than mortals.
33:13  Why, then, do you make complaint against him that he gives no reply to their words?
33:14  For God does speak, once, even twice, though you do not see it:
33:15  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon mortals as they slumber in their beds.
33:16  It is then he opens their ears and with a warning, terrifies them,
33:17  By turning mortals from acting and keeping pride away from a man,
33:18  He holds his soul from the pit, his life from passing to the grave.
33:19  Or he is chastened on a bed of pain, suffering continually in his bones,
33:20  So that to his appetite food is repulsive, his throat rejects the choicest nourishment.
33:21  His flesh is wasted, it cannot be seen; bones, once invisible, appear;
33:22  His soul draws near to the pit, his life to the place of the dead.
33:23  If then there be a divine messenger, a mediator, one out of a thousand, to show him what is right,
33:24  He will take pity on him and say, “Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found him a ransom.”
33:25  Then his flesh shall become soft as a boy’s; he shall be again as in the days of his youth.
33:26  He shall pray and God will favor him; he shall see God’s face with rejoicing; for he restores a person’s righteousness.
33:27  He shall sing before all and say, “I sinned and did wrong, yet I was not punished accordingly.
33:28  He delivered me from passing to the pit, and my life sees light.”
33:29  See, all these things God does, two, even three times, for a man,
33:30  Bringing back his soul from the pit to the light, in the light of the living.
33:31  Be attentive, Job, listen to me! Be silent and I will speak.
33:32  If you have anything to say, then answer me. Speak out! I should like to see you justified.
33:33  If not, then you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.