Job 33

^{Job 33:1} “But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

^{Job 33:2} Behold, I will open my mouth; my address is on the tip of my tongue.

^{Job 33:3} My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.

^{Job 33:4} The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

^{Job 33:5} Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.

^{Job 33:6} I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

^{Job 33:7} Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.

^{Job 33:8} Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:

^{Job 33:9} ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

^{Job 33:10} Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

^{Job 33:11} He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’

^{Job 33:12} Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

^{Job 33:13} Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

^{Job 33:14} For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

^{Job 33:15} In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

^{Job 33:16} He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

^{Job 33:17} to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,

^{Job 33:18} to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

^{Job 33:19} A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

^{Job 33:20} so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

^{Job 33:21} His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.

^{Job 33:22} He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

^{Job 33:23} Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

^{Job 33:24} to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’

^{Job 33:25} then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.

^{Job 33:26} He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.

^{Job 33:27} Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

^{Job 33:28} He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

^{Job 33:29} Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

^{Job 33:30} to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

^{Job 33:31} Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

^{Job 33:32} But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.

^{Job 33:33} But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”