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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.’ |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s words’? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man; |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom; |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’; |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.’ |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29“Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Pay attention, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.” |
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