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OEB JOB Chapter 33

JOB 33 ©

33But listen, Job, pray, to my words,

And give ear unto all that I say.

2Behold! I have opened my mouth;

My tongue in my palate hath spoken.

3MY heart poureth forth words of knowledge;

Unfeigned is the speech of my lips.

4The spirit of God hath created me;

My life is the breath of Almighty.

5Then answer me this, if thou canst:

Stand up and debate with me.

6See! I am in God’s sight as thou;

I, too, was fashioned to clay.

7See! no terrors of mine need appal thee,

Nor shall my hand lie heavy upon thee.

8Thou hast certainly said in my hearing,

Thy voice I heard thus maintaining:

9"Pure and sinless am I;

I am clean, there is no guilt in me.

10But He findeth pretexts against me,

He counteth me as His foe.

11He setteth my feet in the stocks,

Keepeth watch over all my ways.

12Behold! when I cry, comes no answer:

God hideth Himself from men."

God speaks to Men through Dreams and Visions

13Now why dost thou plead against Him

That He giveth thy words no answer?

14For God hath one manner of speech,

Yea two – and He doth not revoke it.

15In a dream, in a vision of night,

"When deep sleep falleth on men,"

In slumbers upon the bed,

16Then He opens the ears of men,

And sendeth them fearful warnings,

17To turn men aside from wrong,

And to bring human pride to an end–

18To keep back man’s soul from the pit

And his life from descending to Sheol.

God speaks to Men through Pain and Sickness

19Or on bed of pain he is chastened,

And all his bones are benumbed.

20His soul has a loathing of bread,

And the daintiest food he abhorreth.

21His flesh is lean and wasted;

His bones are all but bare.

22His soul draweth nigh to the pit,

And his life to the angels of death.

23Then over him there is an angel

Interpreter, one of a thousand,

Who expounds unto man his chastisement,

24Takes pity on him and says:

Let him not go down to the pit:

I have found (for his soul) a ransom."

25Then his flesh becomes fresher than child’s,

He returns to the days of his youth.

26He prays unto God with acceptance,

He looks on His face with joy,

Tells the story of his salvation,

27And sings before men this song:

"I have sinned and perverted the right,

Yet He hath not requited my sin.

28He hath ransomed my soul from the pit,

That alive I behold the light."

29See! all these things God doeth,

Twice, yea thrice, with a man,

30To bring back his soul from the pit,

With the light of life’s sunshine upon him.

31Be attentive, Job, listen to me;

Be thou silent, and I will speak.

32If aught thou canst say, then answer me:

Speak, for my wish is to clear thee.

33But if not, listen thou unto me:

Be silent, while I teach thee wisdom.

JOB 33 ©

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