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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/job/32.htm" title="Job 32">◄</a> Job 33 <a href="/job/34.htm" title="Job 34">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">American Standard Version</div>Elihu Rebukes Job <a href="/job/33-1.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">1Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, And hearken to all my words.</a> <a href="/job/33-2.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">2Behold now, I have opened my mouth; My tongue hath spoken in my mouth.</a> <a href="/job/33-3.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">3My words'shall utter the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.</a> <a href="/job/33-4.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">4The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life.</a> <a href="/job/33-5.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">5If thou canst, answer thou me; Set thy words in order before me, stand forth.</a> <a href="/job/33-6.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">6Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.</a> <a href="/job/33-7.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">7Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, Neither shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.</a> <a href="/job/33-8.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">8Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the voice of thy words,'saying ,</a> <a href="/job/33-9.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">9I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:</a> <a href="/job/33-10.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">10Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy:</a> <a href="/job/33-11.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">11He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.</a> <a href="/job/33-12.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">12Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just; For God is greater than man.</a> <a href="/job/33-13.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">13Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?</a> <a href="/job/33-14.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">14For God speaketh once, Yea twice, though man regardeth it not.</a> <a href="/job/33-15.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">15In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;</a> <a href="/job/33-16.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">16Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction,</a> <a href="/job/33-17.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">17That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man;</a> <a href="/job/33-18.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.</a> <a href="/job/33-19.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;</a> <a href="/job/33-20.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">20So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.</a> <a href="/job/33-21.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.</a> <a href="/job/33-22.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.</a> <a href="/job/33-23.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">23If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is right for him;</a> <a href="/job/33-24.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">24Then God is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.</a> <a href="/job/33-25.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">25His flesh shall be fresher than a child's; He returneth to the days of his youth.</a> <a href="/job/33-26.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">26He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him, So that he seeth his face with joy: And he restoreth unto man his righteousness.</a> <a href="/job/33-27.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">27He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:</a> <a href="/job/33-28.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">28He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.</a> <a href="/job/33-29.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">29Lo, all these things doth God work, Twice, yea thrice, with a man,</a> <a href="/job/33-30.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">30To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.</a> <a href="/job/33-31.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">31Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: Hold thy peace, and I will speak.</a> <a href="/job/33-32.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">32If thou hast anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify thee.</a> <a href="/job/33-33.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">33If not, hearken thou unto me: Hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.</a> <a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible © 2012, Used by Permission</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Outline</div>1. <a href="/job/33-1.htm">Elihu offers himself instead of God to reason with Job</a> 8. <a href="/job/33-8.htm">He excuses God from giving man an account of his ways, by his greatness</a> 14. <a href="/job/33-14.htm">God calls man to repentance by visions, by afflictions, and by his ministry</a> 31. <a href="/job/33-31.htm">He incites Job to attention</a> <div class="vheading2">Chapters</div><a href="/job/1.htm">Job 1: Job's Character and Wealth</a> <a href="/job/2.htm">Job 2: Job Loses his Health</a> <a href="/job/3.htm">Job 3: Job Laments his Birth </a> <a href="/job/4.htm">Job 4: Eliphaz: the Innocent Prosper </a> <a href="/job/5.htm">Job 5: Eliphaz Continues </a> <a href="/job/6.htm">Job 6: Job Replies: My Complaint is Just </a> <a href="/job/7.htm">Job 7: Job Continues: Life Seems Futile</a> <a href="/job/8.htm">Job 8: Bildad: Job Should Repent </a> <a href="/job/9.htm">Job 9: Job: No Arbiter Between God and Man</a> <a href="/job/10.htm">Job 10: Job's Plea to God </a> <a href="/job/11.htm">Job 11: Zophar Rebukes Job</a> <a href="/job/12.htm">Job 12: Job's Response to Zophar </a> <a href="/job/13.htm">Job 13: Job Reproves his Friends</a> <a href="/job/14.htm">Job 14: Job Acknowledges the Finality of Death</a> <a href="/job/15.htm">Job 15: Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God </a> <a href="/job/16.htm">Job 16: Job: Poor Comforters Are You </a> <a href="/job/17.htm">Job 17: Job Appeals From Men to God</a> <a href="/job/18.htm">Job 18: Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked </a> <a href="/job/19.htm">Job 19: Job: My Redeemer Lives </a> <a href="/job/20.htm">Job 20: Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked is Short</a> <a href="/job/21.htm">Job 21: Job: God Will Deal with the Wicked</a> <a href="/job/22.htm">Job 22: Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job</a> <a href="/job/23.htm">Job 23: Job Responds: He Longs for God</a> <a href="/job/24.htm">Job 24: Job: Why Are the Wicked Unpunished </a> <a href="/job/25.htm">Job 25: Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous </a> <a href="/job/26.htm">Job 26: Job: who Can Understand God's Majesty</a> <a href="/job/27.htm">Job 27: Job Affirms his Integrity</a> <a href="/job/28.htm">Job 28: The Earth's Treasures</a> <a href="/job/29.htm">Job 29: Job's Former Blessings </a> <a href="/job/30.htm">Job 30: Job's Honor is Turned Into Contempt</a> <a href="/job/31.htm">Job 31: Job's Final Appeal </a> <a href="/job/32.htm">Job 32: Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends </a> <a href="/job/33.htm">Job 33: Elihu Rebukes Job </a> <a href="/job/34.htm">Job 34: Elihu Confirms God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/35.htm">Job 35: Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice </a> <a href="/job/36.htm">Job 36: Elihu Shows God's Justice and Power</a> <a href="/job/37.htm">Job 37: Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty </a> <a href="/job/38.htm">Job 38: God Challenges Job</a> <a href="/job/39.htm">Job 39: God Speaks of His Creation</a> <a href="/job/40.htm">Job 40: Job Humbles Himself Before God</a> <a href="/job/41.htm">Job 41: God's Power Shown in Creatures</a> <a href="/job/42.htm">Job 42: Job Submits Himself to God</a> </div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/job/32.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' 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