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Chapter 33
1 Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
2 Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.
3 My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.
4 The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.
5 If you can, answer me, and stand up against my face.
6 Behold God has made me as well as you, and of the same clay I also was formed.
7 But yet let not my wonder terrify you, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to you.
8 Now you has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words:
9 I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.
10 Because he has found complaints against me, therefore he has counted me for his enemy.
11 He has put my feet in the stocks, he has observed all my paths.
12 Now this is the thing in which you are not justified: I will answer you, that God is greater than man.
13 do you strive against him, because he has not answered you to all words?
14 God speaks once, and repeats not the selfsame thing the second time.
15 By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falls upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:
16 Then he opens the ears of men, and teaching instructs them in what they are to learn.
17 That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.
18 Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.
19 He rebukes also by sorrow in the bed, and he makes all his bones to wither.
20 Bread becomes abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.
21 His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.
22 His soul has drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness,
24 He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.
25 His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return to the days of his youth.
26 He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.
27 He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.
28 He has delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.
29 Behold, all these things God works three times within every one.
30 That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.
31 Attend, Job, and hearken to me: and hold your peace, whilst I speak.
32 But if you have any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would have you to appear just.
33 And if you have not, hear me: hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.