The Book of Job

Chapter-33

Job 33:1 Therefore, hear my speeches, Job, and listen to all my words.

 

Job 33:2 Behold, I have opened my mouth; let my tongue speak along with my throat.

 

Job 33:3 My words are from my simple heart, and my lips will speak a pure judgment.

 

Job 33:4 The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

 

Job 33:5 If you can, answer me, and oppose me to my face.

 

Job 33:6 Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.

 

Job 33:7 So, truly, do not let my wonders terrify you, and do not let my eloquence be burdensome to you.

 

Job 33:8 For you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying:

 

Job 33:9 “I am clean and without sin; I am immaculate, and there is no iniquity in me.

 

Job 33:10 Yet he has discovered blame in me, and so he has treated me like his enemy.

 

Job 33:11 He has put my feet in fetters; he has kept watch over all my ways.”

 

Job 33:12 Therefore, it is for this reason that you have not been justified. For I tell you that God is greater than man.

 

Job 33:13 Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?

 

Job 33:14 God speaks once, and he does not repeat the same thing a second time.

 

Job 33:15 Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in their beds,

 

Job 33:16 then, he opens the ears of men, and, educating them, he teaches discipline,

 

Job 33:17 so that he may divert a man from the things that he is doing, and may free him from pride,

 

Job 33:18 rescuing his soul from corruption and his life from passing away by the sword.

 

Job 33:19 Likewise, he rebukes by sorrow in bed, and he causes all of his bones to become weak.

 

Job 33:20 Bread becomes abominable to him in his life, and, to his soul, the meat which before he desired.

 

Job 33:21 His body will waste away, and his bones, which had been covered, will be revealed.

 

Job 33:22 His soul has approached corruption, and his life has drawn near to what is deadly.

 

Job 33:23 If there were an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare the fairness of the man,

 

Job 33:24 he 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.

 

Job 33:25 His body is consumed by suffering. Let him return to the days of his youth.”

 

Job 33:26 He 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.

 

Job 33:27 He will consider mankind, and he will say: “I have sinned and truly I have offended, yet I was not treated as I deserved.”

 

Job 33:28 He has freed his soul from continuing into destruction, so that, in living, it may see the light.

 

Job 33:29 Behold, all these things God works three times within each one,

 

Job 33:30 so that he may revive their souls from corruption and enlighten them with the light of life.

 

Job 33:31 Pay attention Job, and listen to me; and remain silent, while I speak.

 

Job 33:32 Yet, if you have anything to say, answer me and speak, for I want you to be treated justly.

 

Job 33:33 But if you do not have anything to say, then listen to me. Be quiet and I will teach you wisdom.