Job 33:1-18 ▼

1 |But now, O Job, listen to my words, and hear everything I have to say!

2 See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.

3 My words come from the uprightness of my heart, and my lips will utter knowledge sincerely.

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

5 Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!

6 Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

7 Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.

8 |Indeed, you have said in my hearing (I heard the sound of the words!):

9 I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

10 Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

11 He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.'

12 Now in this, you are not right--I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

13 Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person's words?

14 |For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.

15 In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.

16 Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings,

17 to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person's pride.

18 He spares a person's life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.