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Job 33
Septuagint (LXX2012) 33 compared with World English Bible 33
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1Howbeit hear, Job, my words, and listen to my speech.
1“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
2For behold, I have opened my mouth, and my tongue has spoken .
2See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
3My heart [shall be found] pure by [my] words; and the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.
3My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.
4The Divine Spirit is that which formed me, and the breath of the Almighty that which teaches me .
4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5If you can, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I [will stand] against you.
5If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up.
6You are formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same [substance].
6Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
7My fear shall not terrify you , neither shall my hand be heavy upon you.
7Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you.
8But you have said in my ears, (I have heard the voice of your words;) because you say, I am pure, not having sinned;
8“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
9I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.
9‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
10Yet he has revealed a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary.
10Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
11And he has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways.
11He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’
12For how say you, I am righteous, yet he has not listened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal.
12“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
13But you say, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?
13Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
14For when the Lord speaks once, or a second time,
14For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.
15[sending] a dream, or in the meditation of the night; (as when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, in slumberings on the bed:)
15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed,
16then opens he the understanding of men: he scares them with such fearful visions:
16then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
17to turn a man from unrighteousness, and he delivers his body from a fall.
17that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
18He spares also his soul from death, and [suffers] him not to fall in war.
18He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
19And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed.
19“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
20And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;
20so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
21until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall show his bones bare.
21His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
22His soul also draws near to death, and his life is in Hades.
22Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.