33:8 “Indeed, you have said in my hearing 1
(I heard the sound of the words!):
33:9 2 ‘I am pure, without transgression;
I am clean 3 and have no iniquity.
33:10 4 Yet God 5 finds occasions 6 with me;
he regards me as his enemy!
33:11 7 He puts my feet in shackles;
he watches closely all my paths.’
33:12 Now in this, you are not right – I answer you, 8
for God is greater than a human being. 9
33:13 Why do you contend against him,
that he does not answer all a person’s 10 words?
33:14 “For God speaks, the first time in one way,
the second time in another,
though a person does not perceive 11 it.
33:15 In a dream, a night vision,
when deep sleep falls on people
as they sleep in their beds.
33:16 Then he gives a revelation 12 to people,
and terrifies them with warnings, 13
33:17 to turn a person from his sin, 14
and to cover a person’s pride. 15
33:18 He spares a person’s life from corruption, 16
his very life from crossing over 17 the river.
33:19 Or a person is chastened 18 by pain on his bed,
and with the continual strife of his bones, 19
33:20 so that his life loathes food,
and his soul rejects appetizing fare. 20
33:21 His flesh wastes away from sight,
and his bones, which were not seen,
are easily visible. 21
33:22 He 22 draws near to the place of corruption,
and his life to the messengers of death. 23
33:23 If there is an angel beside him,
one mediator 24 out of a thousand,
to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness; 25
33:24 and if 26 God 27 is gracious to him and says,
‘Spare 28 him from going down
to the place of corruption,
I have found a ransom for him,’ 29
33:25 then his flesh is restored 30 like a youth’s;
he returns to the days of his youthful vigor. 31
33:26 He entreats God, and God 32 delights in him,
he sees God’s face 33 with rejoicing,
and God 34 restores to him his righteousness. 35
33:27 That person sings 36 to others, 37 saying:
‘I have sinned and falsified what is right,
but I was not punished according to what I deserved. 38
33:28 He redeemed my life 39
from going down to the place of corruption,
and my life sees the light!’
33:29 “Indeed, God does all these things,
twice, three times, in his dealings 41 with a person,
33:30 to turn back his life from the place of corruption,
that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
33:31 Pay attention, Job – listen to me;
be silent, and I will speak.
33:32 If you have any words, 42 reply to me;
speak, for I want to justify you. 43
33:33 If not, you listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”