Job 33:1-16 ▼

1 “But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

2 Behold, I will open my mouth; my address is on the tip of my tongue.

3 My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.

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

5 Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.

6 I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

7 Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.

8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:

9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

10 Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

11 He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’

12 Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

13 Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

14 For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

15 In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

16 He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings