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Job 33 :: New International Version (NIV)

Job 33:1

Job 33:1“But now, Job, listen to my words; pay attention to everything I say.

Job 33:2

Job 33:2I am about to open my mouth; my words are on the tip of my tongue.

Job 33:3

Job 33:3My words come from an upright heart; my lips sincerely speak what I know.

Job 33:4

Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 33:5

Job 33:5Answer me then, if you can; stand up and argue your case before me.

Job 33:6

Job 33:6I am the same as you in God’s sight; I too am a piece of clay.

Job 33:7

Job 33:7No fear of me should alarm you, nor should my hand be heavy on you.

Job 33:8

Job 33:8“But you have said in my hearing— I heard the very words—

Job 33:9

Job 33:9‘I am pure, I have done no wrong; I am clean and free from sin.

Job 33:10

Job 33:10Yet God has found fault with me; he considers me his enemy.

Job 33:11

Job 33:11He fastens my feet in shackles; he keeps close watch on all my paths.’

Job 33:12

Job 33:12“But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than any mortal.

Job 33:13

Job 33:13Why do you complain to him that he responds to no one’s words[fn]?

Job 33:14

Job 33:14For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.

Job 33:15

Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,

Job 33:16

Job 33:16he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,

Job 33:17

Job 33:17to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,

Job 33:18

Job 33:18to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.[fn]

Job 33:19

Job 33:19“Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in their bones,

Job 33:20

Job 33:20so that their body finds food repulsive and their soul loathes the choicest meal.

Job 33:21

Job 33:21Their flesh wastes away to nothing, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.

Job 33:22

Job 33:22They draw near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.[fn]

Job 33:23

Job 33:23Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright,

Job 33:24

Job 33:24and he is gracious to that person and says to God, ‘Spare them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for them—

Job 33:25

Job 33:25let their flesh be renewed like a child’s; let them be restored as in the days of their youth’—

Job 33:26

Job 33:26then that person can pray to God and find favor with him, they will see God’s face and shout for joy; he will restore them to full well-being.

Job 33:27

Job 33:27And they will go to others and say, ‘I have sinned, I have perverted what is right, but I did not get what I deserved.

Job 33:28

Job 33:28God has delivered me from going down to the pit, and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.’

Job 33:29

Job 33:29“God does all these things to a person— twice, even three times—

Job 33:30

Job 33:30to turn them back from the pit, that the light of life may shine on them.

Job 33:31

Job 33:31“Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

Job 33:32

Job 33:32If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to vindicate you.

Job 33:33

Job 33:33But if not, then listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
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Or that he does not answer for any of his actions
Or from crossing the river
Or to the place of the dead
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