| Chapter 33 |
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Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words. --
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Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws. --
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My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence. --
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The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life. --
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If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face. --
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Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed. --
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But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee. --
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Now thou has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words : --
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I am clean, and without sin : I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me. --
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Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy. --
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He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths. --
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Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified : I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. --
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Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words? --
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God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time. --
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By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds : --
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Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn. --
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That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride. --
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Rescuing his soul from corruption : and his life from passing to the sword. --
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He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither. --
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Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired. --
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His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare. --
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His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers. --
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If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness, --
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He shall have mercy on him, and shall say : Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption : I have found wherein I may be merciful to him. --
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His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return to the days of his youth. --
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He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him : and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice. --
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He shall look upon men, and shall say : I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved. --
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He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light. --
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Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one. --
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That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living. --
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Attend, Job, and hearken to me : and hold thy peace, whilst I speak. --
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But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak : for I would have thee to appear just. --
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And if thou have not, hear me : hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom. --
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