Job 33

1 Therefore, Job, hear thou my speeches, and hearken to all my words.⋮

2 Lo! I have opened my mouth, my tongue shall speak in my cheeks.⋮

3 Of simple heart be my words, and my lips shall speak clean sentence.⋮

4 The spirit of God made me, and the breathing of Almighty God quick-ened me.⋮

5 If thou mayest, answer thou to me, and stand thou against my face.⋮

6 Lo! God made me as and thee; and also I am formed of the same clay.⋮

7 Nevertheless my miracle, that is, knowing given of God, either by miracle, to me, make thee not afeared, and mine eloquence be not grievous to thee.⋮

8 Thou saidest in mine hearing, and I heard the voice of thy words,⋮

9 I am clean, and without guilt, and unwemmed, and wickedness is not in me.⋮

10 For God found quarrels in me, therefore he deemed me enemy to himself.⋮

11 He hath set or put my feet in a stock; he kept all my paths.⋮

12 Therefore this thing it is, in which thou art not made just; I shall answer to thee, that God is more than man.⋮

13 Thou, Job, strivest against God, that not at all thy words he answered to thee.⋮

14 God speaketh once, and the second time he rehearseth not the same thing.⋮

15 God speaketh by a dream in the vision of night, when sleep falleth on men, and when they sleep in their bed.⋮

16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and he teacheth them, and teacheth prudence or discipline;⋮

17 that he turn away a man from these things which he made, and deliver him from pride;⋮

18 and that he deliver his soul from corruption, and his life, that it go not into sword.⋮

19 Also God blameth a man by sorrow in his bed, and he maketh all the bones of him for to wax rotten.⋮

20 Bread is made abominable to him in his life, and the meat, that before was to him desirable, loathed to his soul after.⋮

21 His flesh shall fail for rot, and his bones, that were covered, shall be made naked.⋮

22 His soul shall nigh to corruption, and his life to things bringing death.⋮

23 If an angel, one of a thousand, is speaking for him, that he show the equity of man,⋮

24 God shall have mercy on him, and shall say, Deliver thou him, that he go not down into corruption; I have found in what thing I shall do mercy to him.⋮

25 His flesh is wasted with torments; turn he again to the days of his young waxing age.⋮

26 He shall beseech God, and he shall be quemeful to him; and he shall see his face in perfect joy, and he shall yield to man his rightfulness or rightwiseness.⋮

27 He shall behold men, and he shall say, I have sinned, and verily I have trespassed; and I have not received, as I was worthy.⋮

28 Forsooth he hath delivered his soul, that it should not go into perish-ing, but that he living should see light.⋮

29 Lo! God worketh all these things in three times by all men;⋮

30 that he again-call their souls from corruption, and enlighten them in the light of living men.⋮

31 Job, take heed, and hear thou me, and be thou still, while I speak.⋮

32 But if thou hast ready what thou shalt speak, answer thou to me, speak; for I will or desire, that thou appear just.⋮

33 That if thou hast not, hear thou me; be thou still, and I shall teach thee wisdom.⋮