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Job 33

Lexham English Bible LEB

1 "But now, please hear my speeches, Job, and hear all my words.

2 Please look, I open my mouth; my tongue in my mouth speaks.

3 My words [declare] my heart's uprightness, and my lips sincerely speak {what my lips know}.

4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai gives life to me.

5 "If you are able, answer me. Present [your argument] {before me}; take your stand.

6 Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.

7 Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you.

8 "Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard [the] sound of [your] words:

9 'I [am] clean, without transgression; I [am] pure, and [there is] no guilt in me.

10 Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

11 he puts my feet in the block; he watches all my paths.'

12 "Look, [in] this you are not right--I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.

13 Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words?

14 Indeed, God speaks in one [way], even in two, [yet] [someone] does not perceive it.

15 "In a dream, a vision of [the] night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on [their] bed,

16 then he opens [the] ear of men, and {he frightens them with a warning}

17 to turn human beings aside [from their] deeds, and he keeps man from pride.

18 He spares his life from [the] pit and his life from passing over the river [of death].

19 "And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even [with] the strife of his bones continually,

20 {so that} his life loathes bread, and his inner self [loathes] {appetizing food}.

21 His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, [which] are invisible, are bared.

22 And {he} draws near to the pit and his life to the killers.

23 "If there is a messenger beside him, a mediator, one of a thousand, to declare to a human being his uprightness

24 {so that} he is gracious [to] him, and he says, 'Deliver him from descending into [the] pit; I have found a ransom.'

25 His flesh is renewed with [his] youth; he returns to [the] days of his youthful strength.

26 He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.

27 "He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted [what is] right, and it was not paid back to me.

28 He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so {I will enjoy the light}.'

29 Look, God does all these [things] twice, three times with a person

30 to bring his life back from [the] pit {so that he may enjoy the light of life}.

31 "Listen attentively, Job; listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

32 If {you have anything to say}, {answer me}; speak, for I desire {to justify you}.

33 If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."

New International Version NIV

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 ?

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.

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.

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.”