Thematic Bible
Job 33:1 (show verse)
"But now, O Job, listen to my words, and hear everything I have to say!
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Job 33:2 (show verse)
See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.
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Job 33:3 (show verse)
My words come from the uprightness of my heart, and my lips will utter knowledge sincerely.
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Job 33:4 (show verse)
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Job 33:5 (show verse)
Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!
Job 33:6 (show verse)
Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
Job 33:7 (show verse)
Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.
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Job 33:8 (show verse)
"Indeed, you have said in my hearing (I heard the sound of the words!):
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Job 33:9 (show verse)
I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
Job 33:10 (show verse)
Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!
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Job 33:11 (show verse)
He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.'
Job 33:12 (show verse)
Now in this, you are not right -- I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.
Job 33:13 (show verse)
Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person's words?
Job 33:14 (show verse)
"For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.
Job 33:15 (show verse)
In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.
Job 33:16 (show verse)
Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings,
Job 33:17 (show verse)
to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person's pride.
Job 33:18 (show verse)
He spares a person's life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.
Job 33:19 (show verse)
Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,
Job 33:20 (show verse)
so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
Job 33:21 (show verse)
His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
Job 33:22 (show verse)
He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.
Job 33:23 (show verse)
If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;
Job 33:24 (show verse)
and if God is gracious to him and says, 'Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,'
Job 33:25 (show verse)
then his flesh is restored like a youth's; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.
Job 33:26 (show verse)
He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God's face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.
Job 33:27 (show verse)
That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
Job 33:28 (show verse)
He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!'
Job 33:29 (show verse)
"Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,
Job 33:30 (show verse)
to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
Job 33:31 (show verse)
Pay attention, Job -- listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
Job 33:32 (show verse)
If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.
Job 33:33 (show verse)
If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."
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