Job 33
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Job 33
Elihu Rebukes Job
1“But now, hear my speech, O Job,
and listen to all my words.
2See, I open my mouth;
the tongue in my mouth speaks.
3 #
Job 6.28; 27.4; 36.4 My words declare the uprightness of my heart,
and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
4 #
Gn 2.7; Job 27.3 The spirit of God has made me,
and the breath of the Almighty#33.4 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai gives me life.
5 #
v 32
; Job 13.18Answer me, if you can;
set your words in order before me; take your stand.
6See, before God I am as you are;
I, too, was formed from a piece of clay.
7 #
Job 9.34; 13.21; 2 Cor 2.5 No fear of me need terrify you;
my pressure will not be heavy on you.
8“Surely, you have spoken in my hearing,
and I have heard the sound of your words.
9 #
Job 10.7; 13.23; 16.17 You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression;
I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
10 #
Job 13.24
Look, he finds occasions against me;
he counts me as his enemy;
11 #
Job 13.27; 14.16 he puts my feet in the stocks
and watches all my paths.’
12“But in this you are not right. I will answer you:
God is greater than any mortal.
13 #
Job 15.25; Isa 45.9 Why do you contend against him,
saying, ‘He will answer none of my#33.13 Compare Gk: Heb his words’?
14 #
Ps 62.11
For God speaks in one way
and in two, though people do not perceive it.
15 #
Num 12.6; Job 4.13 In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falls on mortals,
while they slumber on their beds,
16 #
Job 36.10, 15 then he opens their ears
and terrifies them with warnings,
17that he may turn them aside from their deeds
and keep them from pride,
18to spare their souls from the Pit,
their lives from traversing the River.
19 #
Job 30.17
They are also chastened with pain upon their beds
and with continual strife in their bones,
20 #
Ps 107.18
so that their lives loathe bread
and their appetites dainty food.
21 #
Job 16.8; 19.20 Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.
22 #
Ps 88.3
Their souls draw near the Pit
and their lives to those who bring death.
23 #
Mic 6.8
Then, if there should be for one of them an angel,
a mediator, one of a thousand,
one who declares a person upright,
24 #
Isa 38.17
and he is gracious to that person and says,
‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit;
I have found a ransom;
25 #
2 Kings 5.14
let his flesh become fresh with youth;
let him return to the days of his youthful vigor,’
26 #
Job 22.26, 27; 34.28; Ps 51.12 then he prays to God and is accepted by him;
he comes into his presence with joy,
and God#33.26 Heb he repays him for his righteousness.
27 #
Lk 15.21; Rom 6.21 That person sings to others and says,
‘I sinned and perverted what was right,
and it was not paid back to me.
28 #
Job 22.28; Ps 103.14 He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit,
and my life shall see the light.’
29 #
1 Cor 12.6; Eph 1.11; Phil 2.13 “God indeed does all these things,
twice, three times, with mortals,
30 #
Ps 56.13
to bring back their souls from the Pit,
so that they may see the light of life.#33.30 Syr: Heb to be lighted with the light of life
31Pay heed, Job, listen to me;
be silent, and I will speak.
32If you have anything to say, answer me;
speak, for I desire to justify you.
33 #
Ps 34.11
If not, listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
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