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take your stand.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>See, before God I am as you are;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I too was formed from a piece of clay.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>No fear of me need terrify you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my pressure will not be heavy on you.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>“Surely, you have spoken in my hearing,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I have heard the sound of your words.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Look, he finds occasions against me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he counts me as his enemy;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>he puts my feet in the stocks,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and watches all my paths.’</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>“But in this you are not right. I will answer you:</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">God is greater than any mortal.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Why do you contend against him,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">saying, ‘He will answer none of my<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15734b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> words’?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>For God speaks in one way,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and in two, though people do not perceive it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>In a dream, in a vision of the night,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when deep sleep falls on mortals,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">while they slumber on their beds,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>then he opens their ears,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and terrifies them with warnings,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>that he may turn them aside from their deeds,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and keep them from pride,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>to spare their souls from the Pit,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">their lives from traversing the River.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>They are also chastened with pain upon their beds,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and with continual strife in their bones,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>so that their lives loathe bread,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their appetites dainty food.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Their souls draw near the Pit,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their lives to those who bring death.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Then, if there should be for one of them an angel,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">a mediator, one of a thousand,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">one who declares a person upright,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>and he is gracious to that person, and says,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I have found a ransom;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>let his flesh become fresh with youth;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>then he prays to God, and is accepted by him,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he comes into his presence with joy,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and God<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15747c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> repays him for his righteousness.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span>That person sings to others and says,</span></span><br /><span class="text">‘I sinned, and perverted what was right,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and it was not paid back to me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my life shall see the light.’</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>“God indeed does all these things,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">twice, three times, with mortals,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>to bring back their souls from the Pit,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so that they may see the light of life.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15751d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Pay heed, Job, listen to me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">be silent, and I will speak.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>If you have anything to say, answer me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">speak, for I desire to justify you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>If not, listen to me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 33:4">Job 33:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 33:13">Job 33:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Compare Gk: Heb <i>his</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 33:26">Job 33:26</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 33:30">Job 33:30</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Heb <i>to be lighted with the light of life</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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