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take your stand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, I am toward God as you are;</span><br /><span class="indent">I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, no fear of me need terrify you;</span><br /><span class="indent">my pressure will not be heavy upon you.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Surely you have spoken in my ears,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I have heard the sound of your words.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression;</span><br /><span class="indent">I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, he finds occasions against me,</span><br /><span class="indent">he counts me as his enemy,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">he puts my feet in the stocks</span><br /><span class="indent">and watches all my paths.’</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you,</span><br /><span class="indent">for God is greater than man.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why do you contend against him,</span><br /><span class="indent">saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew his">a</a></sup></span> words’?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or He will not answer for any of his own words">b</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For God speaks in one way,</span><br /><span class="indent">and in two, though man does not perceive it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In a dream, in a vision of the night,</span><br /><span class="indent">when deep sleep falls on men,</span><br /><span class="indent">while they slumber on their beds,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">then he opens the ears of men</span><br /><span class="indent">and terrifies<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or seals">c</a></sup></span> them with warnings,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">that he may turn man aside from his deed</span><br /><span class="indent">and conceal pride from a man;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">he keeps back his soul from the pit,</span><br /><span class="indent">his life from perishing by the sword.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed</span><br /><span class="indent">and with continual strife in his bones,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">so that his life loathes bread,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his appetite the choicest food.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his bones that were not seen stick out.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His soul draws near the pit,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his life to those who bring death.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If there be for him an angel,</span><br /><span class="indent">a mediator, one of the thousand,</span><br /><span class="indent">to declare to man what is right for him,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and he is merciful to him, and says,</span><br /><span class="indent">‘Deliver him from going down into the pit;</span><br /><span class="indent">I have found a ransom;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">let his flesh become fresh with youth;</span><br /><span class="indent">let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">then man<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew he">d</a></sup></span> prays to God, and he accepts him;</span><br /><span class="indent">he sees his face with a shout of joy,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and he restores to man his righteousness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="indent">He sings before men and says:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">‘I sinned and perverted what was right,</span><br /><span class="indent">and it was not repaid to me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my life shall look upon the light.’</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Behold, God does all these things,</span><br /><span class="indent">twice, three times, with a man,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">to bring back his soul from the pit,</span><br /><span class="indent">that he may be lighted with the light of life.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Pay attention, O Job, listen to me;</span><br /><span class="indent">be silent, and I will speak.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If you have any words, answer me;</span><br /><span class="indent">speak, for I desire to justify you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If not, listen to me;</span><br /><span class="indent">be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Hebrew <i>his</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">He will</span> not answer for any of his own words</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>seals</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> Hebrew <i>he</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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