1“But now, Job, listen carefully
2I am ready to tell you [MTY, DOU] what I think.
3I know that I am speaking honestly
4Almighty God has created me as well as you,
5So, answer what I say if you can;
6“God considers that you, and I are both equal;
7So you do not need to be afraid of me;
8I have heard you [DOU] speaking,
9‘I am innocent; I have not committed any sins;
10But God finds reasons to accuse me,
11It is as though he has put my feet ◄in stocks/between wooden blocks to prevent me from walking away►,
12But what you have said is wrong,
13So, ◄why are you arguing against God, saying ‘He never answers my questions’?/you should not be arguing against God, saying ‘He never answers my questions.’► [RHQ]
14God does speak to us in various ways,
15Sometimes he speaks to us at night in dreams and visions,
16He reveals things [MTY] to us
17He tell us those things in order that we stop doing evil things
18He does not want us to be destroyed [MTY];
19God also sometimes corrects us by forcing us to lie on our beds suffering much pain
20The result is that we do not desire any food,
21Our bodies become very thin, with the result that we look like skeletons [HYP],
22We know that we will soon die
23“But sometimes an angel may come to one of us,
24The angel is kind to us and says to God,
25Allow his body to be strong again;
26When that happens, that person will pray to God, and God will accept/answer him;
27He will sing as he tells everyone,
28He has saved me from dying and going to the place where dead people are,
29God does all these things for us many times;
30he keeps us [SYN] from dying and going to the place where the dead are,
31So Job, listen to me;
32After I speak, if you have something more that you want to say to me,
33But if you have nothing more that you want to say, then just listen to me,