Job 33
1 Now listen to me, Job. Pay attention to everything I have to say.
Wherefore, Iob, I pray thee, heare my talke and hearken vnto all my wordes.
2 Look, I'm about to speak; my mouth is ready to talk.
Beholde now, I haue opened my mouth: my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
3 My words come from my upright heart; my lips speak sincerely of what I know.
My words are in the vprightnesse of mine heart, and my lippes shall speake pure knowledge.
4 The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
The Spirite of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almightie hath giuen me life.
5 Answer me, if you can. Stand in front of me and prepare to defend yourself.
If thou canst giue me answere, prepare thy selfe and stand before me.
6 Look, before God we are both the same. I was also made from a piece of clay.
Beholde, I am according to thy wish in Gods stead: I am also formed of the clay.
7 See here, you don't need to be frightened of me. I won't be too hard on you.
Beholde, my terrour shall not feare thee, neither shall mine hand be heauie vpon thee.
8 You spoke in my hearing and I have listened to everything you had to say.
Doubtles thou hast spoken in mine eares, and I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes.
9 You say, ‘I'm clean, I've done nothing wrong; I'm pure, I have not sinned.
I am cleane, without sinne: I am innocent, and there is none iniquitie in me.
10 See how God finds fault with me and treats me as his enemy.
Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie.
11 He puts my feet in the stocks and watches everything I do.’
He hath put my feete in the stockes, and looketh narrowly vnto all my paths.
12 But look, you are wrong—let me explain. God is greater than any human being.
Behold, in this hast thou not done right: I will answere thee, that God is greater then man.
13 Why are you fighting against him, complaining that God isn't answering your questions?
Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not giue account of all his matters.
14 God speaks over and over again, but people don't notice.
For God speaketh once or twise, and one seeth it not.
15 Through dreams and visions in the night, when people fall into deep sleep, resting on their beds,
In dreames and visions of the night, when sleepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds,
16 God speaks to them with solemn warnings
Then he openeth the eares of men, euen by their corrections, which he had sealed,
17 to turn them away from doing wrong and to stop them from becoming proud.
That he might cause man to turne away from his enterprise, and that he might hide the pride of man,
18 He saves them from the grave and spares them from violent death.
And keepe backe his soule from the pit, and that his life should not passe by the sword.
19 People are also disciplined on a bed of pain with constant aching in their bones.
He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore,
20 They have no desire to eat; they do not even want their favorite dishes.
So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.
21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing; all that's left is skin and bones.
His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter.
22 They are close to death; their lives approaching the executioner.
So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life to the buriers.
23 But if an angel appears, a mediator, one of God's thousands of angels, to tell someone the right way for them,
If there be a messenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand to declare vnto man his righteousnesse,
24 he 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.’
Then will he haue mercie vpon him, and will say, Deliuer him, that he go not downe into the pit: for I haue receiued a reconciliation.
25 Then their bodies will be renewed as if they were young again; they will be as strong as when they were in their prime.
Then shall his flesh be as fresh as a childes, and shall returne as in the dayes of his youth.
26 They 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.
He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto man his righteousnes.
27 They sing, and tell others, ‘I sinned, I distorted what is right, but it did not do me any good.
He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me,
28 He saved me from going down into the grave and I will live in the light.’
He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
29 Look, God does this time and again for people;
Lo, all these things will God worke twise or thrise with a man,
30 he saves them from the grave so they might see the light of life.
That he may turne backe his soule from the pit, to be illuminate in the light of the liuing.
31 Pay attention Job, and listen to me! Be quiet—let me speak!
Marke well, O Iob, and heare me: keepe silence, and I will speake.
32 But if you have anything to say, then speak up.
If there be matter, answere me, and speak: for I desire to iustifie thee.
33 If not, listen to me. Keep quiet and I will teach you wisdom.”
If thou hast not, heare me: holde thy tongue, and I will teach thee wisedome.
