Job 33

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(Job 33:1) "However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
(Job 33:2) See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
(Job 33:3) My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
(Job 33:4) The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
(Job 33:5) If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.
(Job 33:6) Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
(Job 33:7) Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my pressure be heavy on you.
(Job 33:8) "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
(Job 33:9) 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
(Job 33:10) Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
(Job 33:11) He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'
(Job 33:12) "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
(Job 33:13) Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
(Job 33:14) For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.
(Job 33:15) In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
(Job 33:16) Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
(Job 33:17) That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
(Job 33:18) He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
(Job 33:19) He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;
(Job 33:20) So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
(Job 33:21) His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
(Job 33:22) Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
(Job 33:23) "If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
(Job 33:24) then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
(Job 33:25) His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth.
(Job 33:26) He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
(Job 33:27) He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
(Job 33:28) He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'
(Job 33:29) "Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,
(Job 33:30) to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
(Job 33:31) Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.
(Job 33:32) If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.
(Job 33:33) If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom."