nsb - Job:33

nsb@Job:33:1 @ »Listen to my words Job. Pay attention to everything I say.

nsb@Job:33:2 @ »I am about to open my mouth. My words are on the tip of my tongue.

nsb@Job:33:3 @ »My words come from an upright heart! My lips sincerely speak what I know.

nsb@Job:33:4 @ »The Spirit of God has made me. The Breath of the Almighty gives me life.

nsb@Job:33:5 @ »Answer me then, if you can, and prepare yourself to confront me.

nsb@Job:33:6 @ »I am just like you before God. I too have been taken from clay!

nsb@Job:33:7 @ »No fear of me should alarm you, nor should my hand be heavy upon you.

nsb@Job:33:8 @ »You have said in my hearing, I heard the very words:

nsb@Job:33:9 @ »I am pure and without sin! I am clean and free from guilt.

nsb@Job:33:10 @ »Yet God has found fault with me. He considers me his enemy!

nsb@Job:33:11 @ »He fastens my feet in shackles and he keeps close watch on all my paths.

nsb@Job:33:12 @ »But I tell you, Job, in this you are not right, for God is greater than man.

nsb@Job:33:13 @ »Why do you complain to him that he answers none of mans words?

nsb@Job:33:14 @ »God does speak, now one-way and then another, though man may not perceive it.

nsb@Job:33:15 @ »In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men as they slumber in their beds,

nsb@Job:33:16 @ he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,

nsb@Job:33:17 @ that turn man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride.

nsb@Job:33:18 @ »It is to preserve him from the pit and keep his life from perishing by the sword.

nsb@Job:33:19 @ »On the other hand a man may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in his bones.

nsb@Job:33:20 @ »His very being finds food repulsive and he loathes the choicest meal.

nsb@Job:33:21 @ »His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his bones, once hidden, now stick out.

nsb@Job:33:22 @ »He draws near to the pit and to the messengers of death.

nsb@Job:33:23 @ »Yet if there is an angel on his side as a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

nsb@Job:33:24 @ to be gracious to him and say: Spare him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom for him!

nsb@Job:33:25 @ »His flesh is renewed like a childs. It is restored as in the days of his youth.

nsb@Job:33:26 @ »He prays to God and finds favor with him. He sees Gods face and shouts for joy! God restores him to his righteous state.

nsb@Job:33:27 @ »He comes to men and says: I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.

nsb@Job:33:28 @ »He redeemed me from going down to the pit, and I will live to enjoy the light.

nsb@Job:33:29 @ »God does all these things to a man twice, even three times.

nsb@Job:33:30 @ »He turns him back from the pit that the light of life may shine on him.

nsb@Job:33:31 @ »Pay attention, Job, and listen to me! Be silent, and I will speak.

nsb@Job:33:32 @ »If you have anything to say answer me. Speak up, for I want you to be cleared.

nsb@Job:33:33 @ »But if not, then listen to me. Be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.