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words shall utter the uprightness of my heart;</div><div class="po2">And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The spirit of God hath made me,</div><div class="po2">And the breath of the Almighty given me life.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If thou canst, answer thou me,</div><div class="po2">Set thy words in order before me, stand forth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Behold, I am toward God even as thou art;</div><div class="po2">I also am formed out of the clay.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid,</div><div class="po2">Neither shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing,</div><div class="po2">And I have heard the voice of thy words;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>‘I am clean, without transgression,</div><div class="po2">I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Behold, He findeth occasions against me,</div><div class="po2">He counteth me for His enemy;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He putteth my feet in the stocks,</div><div class="po2">He marketh all my paths.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Behold, I answer thee: In this thou art not right,</div><div class="po2">That God is too great for man;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Why hast thou striven against Him?</div><div class="po2">Seeing that He will not answer any of his words.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For God speaketh in one way,</div><div class="po2">Yea in two, though man perceiveth it not.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>In a dream, in a vision of the night,</div><div class="po2">When deep sleep falleth upon men,</div><div class="po2">In slumberings upon the bed;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then He openeth the ears of men,</div><div class="po2">And by their chastisement sealeth the decree,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>That men may put away their purpose,</div><div class="po2">And that He may hide pride from man;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>That He may keep back his soul from the pit,</div><div class="po2">And his life from perishing by the sword.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He is chastened also with pain upon his bed,</div><div class="po2">And all his bones grow stiff;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So that his life maketh him to abhor bread,</div><div class="po2">And his soul dainty food.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen;</div><div class="po2">And his bones corrode to unsightliness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit,</div><div class="po2">And his life to the destroyers.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If there be for him an angel,</div><div class="po2">An intercessor, one among a thousand,</div><div class="po2">To vouch for a man’s uprightness;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then He is gracious unto him, and saith:</div><div class="po2">‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,</div><div class="po2">I have found a ransom.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>His flesh is tenderer than a child’s;</div><div class="po2">He returneth to the days of his youth;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He prayeth unto God, and He is favourable unto him;</div><div class="po2">So that he seeth His face with joy;</div><div class="po2">And He restoreth unto man his righteousness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>He cometh before men, and saith:</div><div class="po2">‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right,</div><div class="po2">And it profited me not.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So He redeemeth his soul from going into the pit,</div><div class="po2">And his life beholdeth the light.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Lo, all these things doth God work,</div><div class="po2">Twice, yea thrice, with a man,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>To bring back his soul from the pit,</div><div class="po2">That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me;</div><div class="po2">Hold thy peace, and I will speak.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>If thou hast any thing to say, answer me;</div><div class="po2">Speak, for I desire to justify thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/33-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If not, hearken thou unto me;</div><div class="po2">Hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/32.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 32"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 32" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/34.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 34"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 34" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img 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