# Job 33 
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1. “But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words. 
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2. Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks. 
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3. My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely. 
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4. The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. 
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5. Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand. 
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6. Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay. 
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7. Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you. 
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8. “Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words. 
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9. You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me. 
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10. Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy, 
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11. he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.’ 
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12. “Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. 
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13. Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s words’? 
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14. For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. 
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15. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, 
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16. then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, 
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17. that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man; 
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18. he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword. 
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19. “Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones, 
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20. so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food. 
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21. His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. 
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22. His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death. 
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23. If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him, 
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24. and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom; 
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25. let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’; 
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26. then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness. 
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27. He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me. 
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28. He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.’ 
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29. “Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man, 
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30. to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life. 
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31. Pay attention, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. 
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32. If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you. 
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33. If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.” 

(ESV)