Job 33 (NET)

Job 33:1¹“But now, O Job, listen to my words, and hear everything I have to say.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:2²See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:3³My words come from the uprightness of my heart, and my lips will utter knowledge sincerely.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:4⁴The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:5⁵Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:6⁶Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:7⁷Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:8⁸“Indeed, you have said in my hearing (I heard the sound of the words!):Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:9⁹‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:10¹⁰Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:11¹¹He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:12¹²Now in this, you are not right—I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:13¹³Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:14¹⁴“For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:15¹⁵In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:16¹⁶Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:17¹⁷to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person’s pride.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:18¹⁸He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:19¹⁹Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:20²⁰so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:21²¹His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:22²²He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:23²³If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:24²⁴and if God is gracious to him and says, ‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:25²⁵then his flesh is restored like a youth’s; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:26²⁶He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:27²⁷That person sings to others, saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:28²⁸He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:29²⁹“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:30³⁰to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:31³¹Pay attention, Job—listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:32³²If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 33:33³³If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions