33:1 “However, please hear my speech, Job,
And listen to all my words.
33:2 Behold now, I open my mouth,
My tongue in my ①mouth speaks.
▷ ①Lit palate
33:3 My words are from the integrity of my heart,
And my lips speak knowledge sincerely.
33:4 The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of ①the Almighty gives me life.
▷ ①Heb Shaddai
33:5 Refute me if you can;
Line up against me, take your stand.
33:6 Behold, I belong to God, like you;
I too have been ①formed out of the clay.
▷ ①Lit cut out of
33:7 Behold, no fear of me should terrify you,
Nor should my pressure weigh heavily on you.
33:8 “You have in fact spoken ①while I listened,
And I heard the sound of your words:
▷ ①Lit in my ears
33:9 ‘I am pure, without wrongdoing;
I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.
33:10 Behold, He ①invents ②criticisms against me;
He counts me as His enemy.
▷ ①Lit finds ②Or complaints
33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks;
He watches all my paths.’
33:12 Behold, let me respond to you, you are not right in this,
For God is greater than mankind.
33:13 “Why do you complain to Him
That He does not give an account of all His doings?
33:14 Indeed God speaks once,
Or twice, yet no one notices it.
33:15 In a dream, a vision of the night,
When deep sleep falls on people,
While they slumber in their beds,
33:16 Then He opens the ears of people,
And horrifies them with warnings,
33:17 So that He may turn a person away from bad conduct,
And ①keep a man from pride;
▷ ①Lit hide
33:18 He keeps his soul back from the pit,
And his life from perishing by the spear.
33:19 “A person is also rebuked by pain in his bed,
And with constant complaint in his bones,
33:20 So that his life loathes bread,
And his soul, food ①that he should crave.
▷ ①Lit of craving
33:21 His flesh wastes away from sight,
And his bones, which were not seen, stick out.
33:22 Then his soul comes near to the pit,
And his life to those who bring death.
33:23 “If there is an interceding angel for him,
One out of a thousand,
To remind a person of what is ①right for him,
▷ ①Lit his uprightness
33:24 And he is gracious to him, and says,
‘Free him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;
33:25 Let his flesh become fresher than in youth,
Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;
33:26 Then he will pray to God, and He will accept him,
So that he may see His face with joy,
And He will restore His righteousness to that person.
33:27 He will sing to people and say,
‘I have sinned and perverted what is right,
And it is not proper for me.
33:28 He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit,
And my life will see the light.’
33:29 “Behold, God does all these things for a man two or three times,
33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit,
So that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
33:31 Pay attention, Job, listen to me;
Keep silent, and let me speak.
33:32 Then if ①you have anything to say, answer me;
Speak, for I would take pleasure in justifying you.
▷ ①Lit there are words
33:33 If not, listen to me;
Keep silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”