33:1 “But now, O Job, listen to my words, and hear everything I have to say!
33:2 See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.
33:3 My words come from the uprightness of my heart, and my lips will utter knowledge sincerely.
33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
33:5 Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!
33:6 Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
33:7 Therefore no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.
33:8 “Indeed, you have said in my hearing (I heard the sound of the words!):
33:9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
33:10 Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!
33:11 He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’
33:12 Now in this, you are not right — I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.
33:13 Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?
33:14 “For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.
33:15 In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.
33:16 Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings,