Job 33

1 “But now, Job, listen to my words; pay attention to everything I say.
2 I am about to open my mouth; my words are on the tip of my tongue.
3 My words come from an upright heart; my lips sincerely speak what I know.
4 The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5 Answer me then, if you can; stand up and argue your case before me.
6 I am the same as you in God’s sight; I too am a piece of clay.
7 No fear of me should alarm you, nor should my hand be heavy on you.
8 “But you have said in my hearing— I heard the very words—
9 ‘I am pure, I have done no wrong; I am clean and free from sin.
10 Yet God has found fault with me; he considers me his enemy.
11 He fastens my feet in shackles; he keeps close watch on all my paths.’
12 “But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than any mortal.
13 Why do you complain to him that he responds to no one’s words[a] ?
14 For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,
16 he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,
17 to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,
18 to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.[b]
19 “Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in their bones,
20 so that their body finds food repulsive and their soul loathes the choicest meal.
21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.
22 They draw near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.[c]
23 Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright,
24 and he is gracious to that person and says to God, ‘Spare them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for them—
25 let their flesh be renewed like a child’s; let them be restored as in the days of their youth’—
26 then that person can pray to God and find favor with him, they will see God’s face and shout for joy; he will restore them to full well-being.
27 And they will go to others and say, ‘I have sinned, I have perverted what is right, but I did not get what I deserved.
28 God has delivered me from going down to the pit, and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.’
29 “God does all these things to a person— twice, even three times—
30 to turn them back from the pit, that the light of life may shine on them.
31 “Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to vindicate you.
33 But if not, then listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

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Cross References 74

  • 1. Job 32:10
  • 2. S Job 6:28; S Job 13:6
  • 3. 1 Kings 3:6; Psalms 7:10; Psalms 11:2; Psalms 64:10
  • 4. S Job 6:28; Job 27:4; Job 36:4
  • 5. S Genesis 1:2
  • 6. Genesis 2:7; Job 10:3
  • 7. S Job 27:3
  • 8. S Numbers 16:22; S Job 12:10
  • 9. ver 32
  • 10. Job 13:18
  • 11. S Job 31:14
  • 12. Acts 14:15; James 5:17
  • 13. S Job 4:19
  • 14. S Job 9:34; Job 13:21; 2 Corinthians 2:4
  • 15. S Job 10:7
  • 16. S Job 9:30; S Job 13:23; Job 16:17
  • 17. S Job 2:9
  • 18. S Job 13:24
  • 19. S Job 13:27
  • 20. Job 14:16; Proverbs 3:6; Isaiah 30:21
  • 21. S Job 5:9; Psalms 8:4; Psalms 50:21; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Isaiah 55:8-9
  • 22. Job 40:2; Isaiah 45:9
  • 23. S Job 11:8
  • 24. Psalms 62:11
  • 25. ver 29
  • 26. Job 4:12
  • 27. S Genesis 20:3; Job 4:13; S Matthew 27:19
  • 28. Acts 16:9
  • 29. S Genesis 15:1; Daniel 2:19
  • 30. S Genesis 2:21
  • 31. Job 36:10,15
  • 32. S Job 6:4
  • 33. Psalms 88:15-16
  • 34. S Job 20:6
  • 35. ver 22,24,28,30; Psalms 28:1; Psalms 30:9; Psalms 69:15; Psalms 88:6; Psalms 103:4; Proverbs 1:12; Isaiah 14:15; Isaiah 38:17; John 2:6; Zechariah 9:11
  • 36. S Job 15:22; Matthew 26:52
  • 37. S Job 5:17
  • 38. S Genesis 17:1; S Deuteronomy 8:5; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; James 1:3
  • 39. S Job 16:16; Psalms 6:2; Psalms 38:3; Isaiah 38:13; Job 30:17
  • 40. Psalms 102:4; Psalms 107:18
  • 41. S Job 3:24; S Job 6:6
  • 42. S Job 2:5
  • 43. S Job 16:8; Job 19:20
  • 44. S ver 18
  • 45. Job 38:17; Psalms 9:13; Psalms 88:3; Psalms 107:18; Psalms 116:3
  • 46. Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 8:6; Hebrews 9:15
  • 47. Job 36:9-10; Micah 6:8
  • 48. S ver 18; Isaiah 38:17
  • 49. S Job 6:22
  • 50. Psalms 103:5
  • 51. 2 Kings 5:14
  • 52. S Job 5:15; Proverbs 8:35; Proverbs 12:2; Proverbs 18:22; Luke 2:52; Job 34:28
  • 53. S Ezra 3:13; S Job 22:26
  • 54. Psalms 13:5; Psalms 50:15; Psalms 51:12; 1 John 1:9
  • 55. S Numbers 22:34; 2 Samuel 12:13
  • 56. Luke 15:21
  • 57. S Ezra 9:13; Psalms 22:27; Psalms 51:13; Romans 6:21; James 2:13
  • 58. S Exodus 15:13; Psalms 34:22; Psalms 107:20
  • 59. S ver 18; S Job 17:16
  • 60. S Job 22:28
  • 61. Psalms 139:16; Proverbs 16:9; Proverbs 20:24; Jeremiah 10:23; 1 Corinthians 12:6; Ephesians 1:11; Philippians 2:13
  • 62. ver 14
  • 63. James 5:19
  • 64. S ver 18
  • 65. Psalms 49:19; Psalms 56:13; Psalms 116:9; Isaiah 53:11
  • 66. Isaiah 60:1; Ephesians 5:14
  • 67. Jeremiah 23:18
  • 68. S Job 32:10
  • 69. ver 33
  • 70. ver 5
  • 71. S Job 6:29; Job 35:2
  • 72. S Job 32:10
  • 73. ver 31
  • 74. S Job 6:24; Pr 10:8,10,19; Psalms 34:11

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Or "that he does not answer for any of his actions"
  • [b]. Or "from crossing the river"
  • [c]. Or "to the place of the dead"

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