Job 33

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.	1 Therefore, O Job, hear my discourse, and hearken to all my words.
2 Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.	2 Behold, now I open my mouth; my tongue and my voice form words.
3 My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.	3 I will state directly what is in my mind, my lips shall utter knowledge sincerely;
4 The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.	4 For the spirit of God has made me, the breath of the Almighty keeps me alive.
5 If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.	5 If you are able, refute me; draw up your arguments and stand forth.
6 Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.	6 Behold I, like yourself, have been taken from the same clay by God.
7 But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.	7 Therefore no fear of me should dismay you, nor should my presence weigh heavily upon you.
8 Now thou has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words :	8 But you have said in my hearing, as I listened to the sound of your words:
9 I am clean, and without sin : I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.	9 "I am clean and without transgression; I am innocent; there is no guilt in me.
10 Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.	10 Yet he invents pretexts against me and reckons me as his enemy.
11 He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.	11 He puts my feet in the stocks; he watches all my ways!"
12 Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified : I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.	12 In this you are not just, let me tell you; for God is greater than man.
13 Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?	13 Why, then, do you make complaint against him that he gives no account of his doings?
14 God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.	14 For God does speak, perhaps once, or even twice, though one perceive it not.
15 By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds :	15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, (when deep sleep falls upon men) as they slumber in their beds,
16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.	16 It is then he opens the ears of men and as a warning to them, terrifies them;
17 That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.	17 By turning man from evil and keeping pride away from him,
18 Rescuing his soul from corruption : and his life from passing to the sword.	18 He withholds his soul from the pit and his life from passing to the grave.
19 He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.	19 Or a man is chastened on his bed by pain and unceasing suffering within his frame,
20 Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.	20 So that to his appetite food becomes repulsive, and his senses reject the choicest nourishment.
21 His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.	21 His flesh is wasted so that it cannot be seen, and his bones, once invisible, appear;
22 His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.	22 His soul draws near to the pit, his life to the place of the dead.
23 If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness,	23 If then there be for him an angel, one out of a thousand, a mediator, To show him what is right for him and bring the man back to justice,
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.	24 He will take pity on him and say, "Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found him a ransom."
25 His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return to the days of his youth.	25 Then his flesh shall become soft as a boy's; he shall be again as in the days of his youth.
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.	26 He shall pray and God will favor him; he shall see God's face with rejoicing.
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.	27 He shall sing before men and say, "I sinned and did wrong, yet he has not punished me accordingly.
28 He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.	28 He delivered my soul from passing to the pit, and I behold the light of life."
29 Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one.	29 Lo, all these things God does, twice, or thrice, for a man,
30 That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.	30 Bringing back his soul from the pit to the light, in the land of the living.
31 Attend, Job, and hearken to me : and hold thy peace, whilst I speak.	31 Be attentive, O Job; listen to me! Be silent and I will speak.
32 But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak : for I would have thee to appear just.	32 If you have aught to say, then answer me. Speak out! I should like to see you justified.
33 And if thou have not, hear me : hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.	33 If not, then do you listen to me; be silent while I teach you wisdom.