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33:1  “But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.
33:2  Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.
33:3  My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
33:4  The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
33:5  Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
33:6  Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
33:7  Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure 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  You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
33:10  Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,
33:11  he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.’
33:12  “Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
33:13  Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s words’?
33:14  For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
33:15  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,
33:16  then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings,
33:17  that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man;
33:18  he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
33:19  “Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,
33:20  so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.
33:21  His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.
33:22  His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death.
33:23  If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him,
33:24  and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;
33:25  let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;
33:26  then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
33:27  He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.
33:28  He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.’
33:29  “Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,
33:30  to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life.
33:31  Pay attention, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
33:32  If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
33:33  If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”