Job 33:1-21 ▼

1 “However, please hear my speech, Job, And listen to all my words.

2 “Behold now, I open my mouth, My tongue in my mouth speaks.

3 “My words are from the integrity of my heart, And my lips speak knowledge sincerely.

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

5 “Refute me if you can; Line up against me, take your stand.

6 “Behold, I belong to God, like you; I too have been formed out of the clay.

7 “Behold, no fear of me should terrify you, Nor should my pressure weigh heavily on you.

8 “You have in fact spoken while I listened, And I heard the sound of your words:

9 ‘I am pure, without wrongdoing; I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.

10 ‘Behold, He invents criticisms against me; He counts me as His enemy.

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

12 “Behold, let me respond to you, you are not right in this, For God is greater than mankind.

13 “Why do you complain to Him That He does not give an account of all His doings?

14 “Indeed God speaks once, Or twice, yet no one notices it.

15 “In a dream, a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on people, While they slumber in their beds,

16 Then He opens the ears of people, And horrifies them with warnings,

17 So that He may turn a person away from bad conduct, And keep a man from pride;

18 He keeps his soul back from the pit, And his life from perishing by the spear.

19 “A person is also rebuked by pain in his bed, And with constant complaint in his bones,

20 So that his life loathes bread, And his soul, food that he should crave.

21 “His flesh wastes away from sight, And his bones, which were not seen, stick out.