Job 33

¹“But now, O Job, hear my speech,

²Behold, I will open my mouth;

³My words are from an upright heart,

⁴The Spirit of God has made me,

⁵Refute me if you can;

⁶I am just like you before God;

⁷Surely no fear of me should terrify you;

⁸Surely you have spoken in my hearing,

⁹‘I am pure, without transgression;

¹⁰Yet God finds occasions against me;

¹¹He puts my feet in the stocks;

¹²Behold, you are not right in this matter.

¹³Why do you complain to Him

¹⁴For God speaks in one way and in another,

¹⁵In a dream,

¹⁶He opens their ears

¹⁷to turn a man from wrongdoing

¹⁸to preserve his soul from the Pit

¹⁹A man is also chastened on his bed

²⁰so that he detests his bread,

²¹His flesh wastes away from sight,

²²He draws near to the Pit,

²³Yet if there is a messenger on his side,

²⁴to be gracious to him and say,

²⁵then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s;

²⁶He prays to God and finds favor;

²⁷Then he sings before 33:27 Or Then he looks upon men

²⁸He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit,

²⁹Behold, all these things God does to a man,

³⁰to bring back his soul from the Pit,

³¹Pay attention, Job, and listen to me;

³²But if you have something to say, answer me;

³³But if not, then listen to me;