^33:1 However, Job, I beseech you, hear my speech and listen to all my words. ^33:2 Behold now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth. ^33:3 My words will utter the uprightness of my heart and what my lips know they will speak sincerely. ^33:4 The Spirit of God has made me and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

    ^33:5 If you can, answer you me. Arrange your words before me. Stand forth. ^33:6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I also am formed out of the clay. ^33:7 Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, nor will my pressure be heavy upon you.

    ^33:8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing and I have heard the voice of your words, saying, ^33:9 I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. ^33:10 You say, Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. ^33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.

    ^33:12 Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man. ^33:13 Why do you strive against him because he does not give account of any of his matters?

    ^33:14 For God speaks once, yes twice, though man does not regard it. ^33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed.

    ^33:16 Then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction ^33:17 that he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man. ^33:18 He keeps back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

    ^33:19 He also is chastened with pain upon his bed and with continual strife in his bones, ^33:20 so that his life abhors bread and his soul dainty food. ^33:21 His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen stick out.

    ^33:22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit and his life to the destroyers.

    ^33:23 If there is with him a messenger, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him, ^33:24 then God is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom. ^33:25 His flesh will be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth.

    ^33:26 He prays to God and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy and he restores to man his righteousness. ^33:27 He sings before men and says, I have sinned and perverted what was right and it did not profit me. ^33:28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit and my life will behold the light.

    ^33:29 Behold, all these things God works twice, yes three times, with a man, ^33:30 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

    ^33:31 Mark well, O Job, listen to me. Keep silent and I will speak. ^33:32 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you. ^33:33 If not, listen to me. Keep silent and I will teach you.