rsv Job:33:1-31-33
rsv@Job:33:1 @ "But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.
rsv@Job:33:2 @ Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.
rsv@Job:33:3 @ My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
rsv@Job:33:4 @ The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
rsv@Job:33:5 @ Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
rsv@Job:33:6 @ Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.
rsv@Job:33:7 @ Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
rsv@Job:33:8 @ "Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the sound of your words.
rsv@Job:33:9 @ You say, `u say, "I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
rsv@Job:33:10 @ Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;
rsv@Job:33:11 @ he puts my feet in the stocks, and watches all my paths.'
rsv@Job:33:12 @ "Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you. God is greater than man.
rsv@Job:33:13 @ Why do you contend against him, saying, `He will answer none of my words'?
rsv@Job:33:14 @ For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
rsv@Job:33:15 @ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,
rsv@Job:33:16 @ then he opens the ears of men, and terrifies them with warnings,
rsv@Job:33:17 @ that he may turn man aside from his deed, and cut off pride from man;
rsv@Job:33:18 @ he keeps back his soul from the Pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
rsv@Job:33:19 @ "Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones;
rsv@Job:33:20 @ so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite dainty food.
rsv@Job:33:21 @ His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen; and his bones which were not seen stick out.
rsv@Job:33:22 @ His soul draws near the Pit, and his life to those who bring death.
rsv@Job:33:23 @ If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him;
rsv@Job:33:24 @ and he is gracious to him, and says, `eliver him from going down into the Pit, I have found a ransom;
rsv@Job:33:25 @ let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor';
rsv@Job:33:26 @ then man prays to God, and he accepts him, he comes into his presence with joy. He recounts to men his salvation,
rsv@Job:33:27 @ and he sings before men, and says: `d perverted what was right, and it was not requited to me.
rsv@Job:33:28 @ He has redeemed my soul from going down into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.'
rsv@Job:33:29 @ "Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,
rsv@Job:33:30 @ to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may see the light of life.
rsv@Job:33:31 @ Give heed, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.