Job 33 — FBV
33Verse 1“Now listen to me, Job. Pay attention to everything I have to say.Verse 2Look, I'm about to speak; my mouth is ready to talk.Verse 3My words come from my upright heart; my lips speak sincerely of what I know.Verse 4The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.Verse 5Answer me, if you can. Stand in front of me and prepare to defend yourself.Verse 6Look, before God we are both the same. I was also made from a piece of clay.Verse 7See here, you don't need to be frightened of me. I won't be too hard on you.+Verse 8You spoke in my hearing and I have listened to everything you had to say.Verse 9You say, ‘I'm clean, I've done nothing wrong; I'm pure, I have not sinned.Verse 10See how God finds fault with me and treats me as his enemy.Verse 11He puts my feet in the stocks and watches everything I do.’Verse 12But look, you are wrong—let me explain. God is greater than any human being.Verse 13Why are you fighting against him, complaining that God isn't answering your questions?Verse 14God speaks over and over again,+but people don't notice.Verse 15Through dreams and visions in the night, when people fall into deep sleep, resting on their beds,Verse 16God speaks to them with solemn warnings+Verse 17to turn them away from doing wrong and to stop them from becoming proud.Verse 18He saves them from the grave and spares them from violent death.Verse 19People are also disciplined on a bed of pain with constant aching in their bones.Verse 20They have no desire to eat; they do not even want their favorite dishes.Verse 21Their flesh wastes away to nothing; all that's left is skin and bones.Verse 22They are close to death;+their lives approaching the executioner.+Verse 23But if an angel appears, a mediator, one of God's thousands of angels, to tell someone the right way for them,Verse 24he will be gracious to them. He will say, ‘Save them from going down into the grave, for I have found a way to free them.’+Verse 25Then their bodies will be renewed as if they were young again; they will be as strong as when they were in their prime.Verse 26They will pray to God, and he will accept them; they come into God's presence with joy, and he will set things right for them.Verse 27They sing, and tell others, ‘I sinned, I distorted what is right, but it did not do me any good.+Verse 28He saved me from going down into the grave and I will live in the light.’Verse 29Look, God does this time and again+for people;Verse 30he saves them from the grave so they might see the light of life.Verse 31Pay attention Job, and listen to me! Be quiet—let me speak!Verse 32But if you have anything to say, then speak up.Verse 33If not, listen to me. Keep quiet and I will teach you wisdom.”