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pay attention to what I have to say.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now that I have begun to speak, let me continue.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I speak with all sincerity; I speak the truth.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Answer me, if you can; make your case and take your stand.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Look, you and I both belong to God. I, too, was formed from clay.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So you don’t need to be afraid of me. I won’t come down hard on you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“You have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard your very words.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You said, ‘I am pure; I am without sin; I am innocent; I have no guilt.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God is picking a quarrel with me, and he considers me his enemy.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He puts my feet in the stocks and watches my every move.’<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“But you are wrong, and I will show you why. For God is greater than any human being.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So why are you bringing a charge against him? Why say he does not respond to people’s complaints?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s words’?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He whispers in their ears and terrifies them with warnings.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He makes them turn from doing wrong; he keeps them from pride.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds, with ceaseless aching in their bones.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They lose their appetite for even the most delicious food.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Their flesh wastes away, and their bones stick out.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They are at death’s door; the angels of death wait for them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“But if an angel from heaven appears— a special messenger to intercede for a person and declare that he is upright—<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">he will be gracious and say, ‘Rescue him from the grave, for I have found a ransom for his life.’<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then his body will become as healthy as a child’s, firm and youthful again.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When he prays to God, he will be accepted. And God will receive him with joy and restore him to good standing.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He will declare to his friends, ‘I sinned and twisted the truth, but it was not worth it.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God rescued me from the grave, and now my life is filled with light.’<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Yes, God does these things again and again for people.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He rescues them from the grave so they may enjoy the light of life.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Mark this well, Job. Listen to me, for I have more to say.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Pay attention, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But if you have anything to say, go ahead. Speak, for I am anxious to see you justified.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But if not, then listen to me. Keep silent and I will teach you wisdom!”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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