Job 33

¹Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

²Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.

³My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.

⁴The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

⁵If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.

⁶Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.

⁷But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.

⁸Now thou has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words:

⁹I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.

¹⁰Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.

¹¹He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.

¹²Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

¹³Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?

¹⁴God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.

¹⁵By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds: