Job 33

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¹ So, Job, please listen to my words and attend to al I have to say.	¹ Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
² Now as I open my mouth, and my tongue shapes words against my palate,	² Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.
³ I shal utter words of wisdom from the heart, my lips will speak in all sincerity.	³ My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.
⁴ God's was the spirit that made me, Shaddai's the breath that gave me life.	⁴ The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.
⁵ Refute me, if you can. Prepare yourself, take up your position!	⁵ If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.
⁶ Look, I am your equal, not some god, like you I was moulded out of clay.	⁶ Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.
⁷ No fear of me, therefore, need affright you, my hand wil not lie heavy over you.	⁷ But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.
⁸ How could you say in my hearing -- for the sound of your words did not escape me-	⁸ Now thou has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words :
⁹ 'I am clean, and sinless, I am pure, without fault.	⁹ I am clean, and without sin : I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.
¹⁰ But he keeps inventing excuses against me and regards me as his enemy.	¹⁰ Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.
¹¹ He puts me in the stocks, he watches my every path'?	¹¹ He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.
¹² In saying so, I tel you, you are wrong: for God is greater than any human being.	¹² Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified : I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
¹³ Why then quarrel with him for not replying to you, word for word?	¹³ Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?
¹⁴ God speaks first in one way, and then in another, although we do not realise it.	¹⁴ God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.
¹⁵ In dreams and in night-visions, when slumber has settled on humanity and people are asleep in bed,	¹⁵ By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds :
¹⁶ he speaks in someone's ear, frightens him with apparitions	¹⁶ Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.
¹⁷ to turn him from what he is doing and to put an end to his pride.	¹⁷ That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.
¹⁸ And thus he preserves his soul from the abyss, his life from passing down the Canal.	¹⁸ Rescuing his soul from corruption : and his life from passing to the sword.
¹⁹ Or again, he corrects by the sufferings of the sick-bed, when someone's bones tremble continuously	¹⁹ He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.
²⁰ and the thought of food revolts him, however tasty it is,	²⁰ Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.
²¹ and his flesh rots away while you watch it and the bones beneath begin to show,	²¹ His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.
²² and his soul is drawing nearer to the abyss and his life to the dwel ing of the dead.	²² His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.
²³ Then, if there is an Angel near him, a Mediator, one in a thousand, to remind him where his duty lies,	²³ If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness,
²⁴ to take pity on him and to say, 'Spare him from going down to the abyss: I have found the ransom forhis life,'	²⁴ He shall have mercy on him, and shall say : Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption : I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.
²⁵ his flesh wil recover its childhood freshness, he wil return to the days of his youth.	²⁵ His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return to the days of his youth.
²⁶ He wil pray to God who has restored him to favour, and wil come into his presence with joy. He wiltel others how he has received saving justice	²⁶ He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him : and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.
²⁷ and sing this hymn before his companions, 'I sinned and left the path of right, but God has notpunished me as my sin deserved.	²⁷ He shall look upon men, and shall say : I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.
²⁸ He has spared my soul from going down to the abyss and is making my life see the light.'	²⁸ He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.
²⁹ All this is what God keeps doing again and yet again for human beings,	²⁹ Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one.
³⁰ to snatch souls back from the abyss and to make the light of the living stil shine.	³⁰ That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.
³¹ Pay attention, Job, listen to me: keep quiet, I have more to say.	³¹ Attend, Job, and hearken to me : and hold thy peace, whilst I speak.
³² If you have anything to say, refute me, speak out, for I would gladly accept that you are upright.	³² But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak : for I would have thee to appear just.
³³ If not, then listen to me: keep quiet, and I wil teach you wisdom.	³³ And if thou have not, hear me : hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.

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