Job 33
1 and but to hear: hear please Job speech my and all word my to listen [emph?]
“But now, Job, listen carefully to all that I am going to say [DOU].
2 behold please to open lip my to speak: speak tongue my in/on/with palate my
I am ready to tell you [MTY, DOU] [what I think].
3 uprightness heart my word my and knowledge lips my to purify to speak
I know that I am speaking honestly and that I am speaking [MTY] sincerely.
4 spirit God to make me and breath Almighty to live me
Almighty God has created me [as well as you], and his breath has caused me to live.
5 if be able to return: reply me to arrange [emph?] to/for face: before my to stand [emph?]
So, answer [what] I [say] if you can; think carefully [about how you will reply to me].
6 look! I like/as lip: according your to/for God from clay to wink also I
“God considers that you, and I are both [equal]; he formed both of us from clay.
7 behold terror my not to terrify you and burden my upon you not to honor: heavy
So you do not need to be afraid of me; I will not crush/oppress you [by what I say] [MTY].
8 surely to say in/on/with ear my and voice: sound speech to hear: hear
I have heard you [DOU] speaking, and this is what you have said:
9 pure I without transgression clean I and not iniquity: crime to/for me
‘I am innocent; I have not committed any sins; I am pure; I have not done things that are wrong.
10 look! opposition upon me to find to devise: think me to/for enemy to/for him
But God finds reasons to accuse me, and he considers that I am his enemy.
11 to set: put in/on/with stock foot my to keep: look at all way my
[It is as though] he has put my feet (in stocks/between wooden blocks to prevent me from walking away), and he watches everything that I do.’ [MTY]
12 look! this not to justify to answer you for to multiply god from human
But what you have said is wrong, and I will tell you [what you have said that is wrong]. God is much greater than any human.
13 why? to(wards) him to contend for all word his not to answer
So, (why are you arguing against God, saying ‘He never answers my questions’?/you should not be arguing against God, saying ‘He never answers my questions.’) [RHQ]
14 for in/on/with one to speak: speak God and in/on/with two not to see her
God does speak [to us] in various ways, but we do not pay any attention to what he says.
15 in/on/with dream vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human in/on/with slumber upon bed
[Sometimes he speaks to us] at night in dreams and visions, when we are on our beds, asleep [DOU].
16 then to reveal: uncover ear human and in/on/with discipline their to seal
He reveals things [MTY] to us and terrifies us by the things he warns us about.
17 to/for to turn aside: turn aside man deed and pride from great man to cover
He tell us those things in order that we stop doing [evil] things and to prevent us from becoming proud.
18 to withhold soul his from Pit: hell and living thing his from to pass in/on/with missile (questioned)
He does not want us to be destroyed [MTY]; he wants to prevent us from dying [MTY] [while we are still young].
19 and to rebuke in/on/with pain upon bed his (and abundance *Q(K)*) bone his strong
God also [sometimes] corrects us by forcing us to lie on our beds suffering much pain and with fever/aching in our bones.
20 and to loathe him living thing his food: bread and soul: appetite his food desire
The result is that we do not desire any food, not even very special food.
21 to end: destroy flesh his from sight (and be bare *Q(K)*) bone his not to see: see
Our bodies become very thin, with the result that we look like skeletons [HYP], and our bones stick out.
22 and to present: come to/for pit: grave soul his and living thing his to/for to die
[We know that] we will soon die and go to the place where dead people are.
23 if there upon him messenger: angel to mock one from thousand to/for to tell to/for man uprightness his
“But sometimes an angel [may come to one of us], one of the thousands of angels who come to intervene between us and God, to tell us what are the right things for us [to do].
24 and be gracious him and to say to deliver him from to go down Pit: hell to find ransom (questioned)
The angel is kind to us and says to God, ‘Release that person, so that he does not descend to the place where dead people are! Do that because I have found the money to pay so that he can be released!
25 be fresh flesh his from youth to return: return to/for day youth his
Allow his body to be strong again; allow him to be strong like he was when he was a youth!’
26 to pray to(wards) god and to accept him and to see: see face his in/on/with shout and to return: rescue to/for human righteousness his
When that happens, that person will pray to God, and God will accept/answer him; he will (enter God’s presence/worship God) joyfully, and then he will tell others how God saved him [from dying].
27 to see upon human and to say to sin and upright to twist and not be like to/for me
He will sing as he tells everyone, ‘I sinned, and I did things that were not right, but God did not punish me in the way that I deserved.
28 to ransom (soul his *Q(K)*) from to pass in/on/with Pit: hell (and living thing his *Q(K)*) in/on/with light to see: enjoy (questioned)
He has saved me from dying and going to the place where dead people are, and I will continue to enjoy being alive.’
29 look! all these to work God beat three with great man
God does all these things for us many times;
30 to/for to return: return soul his from Pit: hell to/for to light in/on/with light [the] alive (questioned)
he keeps us [SYN] from [dying and] going to the place where the dead are, in order that we can continue to enjoy being alive [IDM].
31 to listen Job to hear: hear to/for me be quiet and I to speak: speak
So Job, listen to me; do not say anything more; just allow me to speak.
32 if there speech to return: reply me to speak: speak for to delight in to justify you
[After I speak], if you have something more that you want to say to me, say it, because I would like to find a way to declare that you (are innocent/have not done what is wrong).
33 if nothing you(m. s.) to hear: hear to/for me be quiet and to teach/learn you wisdom
But if you have nothing more that you want to say, then just listen to me, and I will teach you how to become wise.”
