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The Book of Job 33

33 “So now, Job, I ask you to listen carefully

to everything that I am going to say.

2 I am ready to speak to you and tell you what I think.

3 What I say will express my sincere feelings of concern for you.

I will only tell you what is genuinely true.

4 You can trust me as someone whom God’s Spirit created.

You can trust me as someone whom Shaddai made alive.

5 Once I have spoken, respond to me if you can.

Think carefully about how you will reply to me.

6 Now you wanted God to answer you, and I will do that for him.

But I am human, just like you,

7 so you do not need to be afraid of me.

I will not speak to you harshly.

8 I listened carefully to you as you spoke,

and this is what I heard you say:

9 ‘I am righteous. I have not committed any sins.

I am innocent. I have not done things that are wrong.

10 Nevertheless, God looks for excuses to punish me.

He treats me as if I were his enemy.

11 He judges me by very strict standards.

He closely observes everything that I do.’

12 However, what you have said is incorrect.

I will explain why.

You do not realize what God is actually doing, since it is beyond human understanding.

13 You should not be protesting that God does not respond to what anyone says.

14 God actually does speak to people in various ways.

People just do not realize how he is doing that.

15 Sometimes God speaks to people at night in dreams and visions

when they are sound asleep in bed.

16 God reveals things to people at those times.

He shows them that they need to change the way that they have been living.

17 God speaks in that way to get people to stop doing evil deeds.

God wants to prevent people from sinning because they have become proud.

18 In this way, God prevents people from dying.

Otherwise, someone might kill them violently.

19 God also corrects people by making them so ill that they have to lie in bed.

They feel constant agony in their bodies.

20 They feel so sick that they do not want to eat anything,

not even their favorite foods.

21 They lose so much weight that there appears to be no flesh between their skin and their bones.

22 They become so sick that they are about to die.

The angels who cause people to die start coming to get them.

23 However, sometimes a special kind of angel may come to a person

and tell him on behalf of God how he can change the way that he has been living so that he will not die.

24 If the person changes the way that he has been living,

then God will forgive him.

God will tell the angels who cause people to die,

‘Do not cause this person to die!

I can see that I should allow him to live, because now he will do what is right.’

25 When that happens, the person will become healthy again and his skin will appear as fresh as the skin of a child.

He will be as strong again as he was when he was young.

26 Then God will once again treat him as a righteous person.

He will pray to God, and God will answer his prayer.

He will come into God’s presence joyfully.

27 He will sing a song of thanksgiving and tell the people who are listening,

‘I sinned; yes, I did things that were not right,

but God did not punish me in the way that I deserved.

28 He has saved me from going to the place where dead people are.

And so I will continue to enjoy being alive!’

29 Indeed, God does this for many people.

30 He keeps them from going to the place where dead people are.

That way they can continue to enjoy being alive.

31 So Job, please listen to me.

Do not say anything right now; just allow me to speak.

32 After I have spoken, then if you have something more that you want to say to me,

say it, because I would like to show that you are innocent.

33 However, if you have nothing more that you want to say, then just listen to me.

I will explain to you how you can understand your situation in a wise way.”

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