Job 33 | BSB Bible Study

Job 33:1 (BSB)
“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

Job 33:2 (BSB)
Behold, I will open my mouth; my address is on the tip of my tongue.

Job 33:3 (BSB)
My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.

Job 33:4 (BSB)
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 33:5 (BSB)
Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.

Job 33:6 (BSB)
I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

Job 33:7 (BSB)
Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.

Job 33:8 (BSB)
Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:

Job 33:9 (BSB)
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

Job 33:10 (BSB)
Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

Job 33:11 (BSB)
He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’

Job 33:12 (BSB)
Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

Job 33:13 (BSB)
Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Job 33:14 (BSB)
For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

Job 33:15 (BSB)
In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

Job 33:16 (BSB)
He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

Job 33:17 (BSB)
to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,

Job 33:18 (BSB)
to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

Job 33:19 (BSB)
A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

Job 33:20 (BSB)
so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

Job 33:21 (BSB)
His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.

Job 33:22 (BSB)
He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

Job 33:23 (BSB)
Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

Job 33:24 (BSB)
to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’

Job 33:25 (BSB)
then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.

Job 33:26 (BSB)
He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.

Job 33:27 (BSB)
Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

Job 33:28 (BSB)
He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

Job 33:29 (BSB)
Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

Job 33:30 (BSB)
to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

Job 33:31 (BSB)
Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

Job 33:32 (BSB)
But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.

Job 33:33 (BSB)
But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”

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