rsv Job:33-34
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.
rsv@Job:33:32 @ If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
rsv@Job:33:33 @ If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."
rsv@Job:34:1 @ Then Eli'hu said:
rsv@Job:34:2 @ "Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;
rsv@Job:34:3 @ for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
rsv@Job:34:4 @ Let us choose what is right; let us determine among ourselves what is good.
rsv@Job:34:5 @ For Job has said, `r Job has said, "I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
rsv@Job:34:6 @ in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
rsv@Job:34:7 @ What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
rsv@Job:34:8 @ who goes in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
rsv@Job:34:9 @ For he has said, `r he has said, "It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.'
rsv@Job:34:10 @ "Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
rsv@Job:34:11 @ For according to the work of a man he will requite him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
rsv@Job:34:12 @ Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
rsv@Job:34:13 @ Who gave him charge over the earth and who laid on him the whole world?
rsv@Job:34:14 @ If he should take back his spirit to himself, and gather to himself his breath,
rsv@Job:34:15 @ all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
rsv@Job:34:16 @ "If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
rsv@Job:34:17 @ Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
rsv@Job:34:18 @ who says to a king, `o says to a king, "Worthless one,' and to nobles, `d to nobles, "Wicked man';
rsv@Job:34:19 @ who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
rsv@Job:34:20 @ In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
rsv@Job:34:21 @ "For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
rsv@Job:34:22 @ There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
rsv@Job:34:23 @ For he has not appointed a time for any man to go before God in judgment.
rsv@Job:34:24 @ He shatters the mighty without investigation, and sets others in their place.
rsv@Job:34:25 @ Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
rsv@Job:34:26 @ He strikes them for their wickedness in the sight of men,
rsv@Job:34:27 @ because they turned aside from following him, and had no regard for any of his ways,
rsv@Job:34:28 @ so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted--
rsv@Job:34:29 @ When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--
rsv@Job:34:30 @ that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.
rsv@Job:34:31 @ "For has any one said to God, ` have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more;
rsv@Job:34:32 @ teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
rsv@Job:34:33 @ Will he then make requital to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.
rsv@Job:34:34 @ Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say:
rsv@Job:34:35 @ `Job speaks without knowledge, his words are without insight.'
rsv@Job:34:36 @ Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.
rsv@Job:34:37 @ For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God."
rsv@Job:35:1 @ And Eli'hu said:
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