Job 33

¹“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

²Behold, I will open my mouth; my address is on the tip of my tongue.

³My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.

⁴The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

⁵Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.

⁶I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

⁷Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.

⁸Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:

⁹‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

¹⁰Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

¹¹He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’

¹²Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

¹³Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

¹⁴For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

¹⁵In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

¹⁶He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings