Job 33

1“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.Cross-references: Job 13:6 · Job 34:2 · Ps 49:1 · Mark 4:9

2See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.Cross-references: Job 3:1 · Job 31:30 · Ps 78:2 · Matt 5:2

3My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.Cross-references: Job 6:28 · Job 15:2 · Job 27:4 · Job 36:3 · Job 38:2 · Ps 37:30 · +5 more

4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Job 10:3 · Job 10:12 · Job 27:3 · Job 32:8 · Ps 33:6 · +2 more

5If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up.Cross-references: Job 13:18 · Job 23:4 · Job 32:1 · Job 32:12 · Job 32:14 · Job 33:32 · +2 more

6Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Gen 3:19 · Gen 30:2 · Ex 4:16 · Job 4:19 · Job 9:32 · +8 more

7Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you.Cross-references: Job 9:34 · Job 13:21 · Ps 32:4 · Ps 88:16

8“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,Cross-references: Deut 13:14 · Jer 29:23

9‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.Cross-references: Job 9:17 · Job 9:21 · Job 9:23 · Job 9:28 · Job 10:7 · Job 11:4 · +8 more

10Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.Cross-references: Job 9:30 · Job 10:15 · Job 13:24 · Job 14:16 · Job 16:9 · Job 19:11 · +3 more

11He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’Cross-references: Job 13:27 · Job 14:16 · Job 31:4 · Ps 105:18 · Jer 20:2 · Dan 4:35 · +1 more

12“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.Cross-references: Job 1:22 · Job 9:4 · Job 26:14 · Job 32:17 · Job 34:10 · Job 34:17 · +11 more

13Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?Cross-references: Deut 29:29 · Job 9:14 · Job 15:25 · Job 40:2 · Ps 62:11 · Isa 45:9 · +10 more

14For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:10 · Job 33:29 · Job 40:5 · Ps 62:11 · Prov 1:24 · Prov 1:29 · +5 more

15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed,Cross-references: Gen 15:12 · Gen 20:3 · Gen 31:24 · Num 12:6 · Job 4:13 · Jer 23:28 · +3 more

16then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,Cross-references: 2Sam 7:27 · Neh 9:38 · Job 36:10 · Job 36:15 · Ps 40:6 · Isa 6:10 · +5 more

17that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.Cross-references: Gen 20:6 · Deut 8:16 · 2Chr 32:25 · Job 17:11 · Isa 2:11 · Isa 23:9 · +6 more

18He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.Cross-references: Job 15:22 · Job 33:22 · Job 33:24 · Job 33:28 · Job 33:30 · Acts 16:27 · +3 more

19“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,Cross-references: Deut 8:5 · 2Chr 16:10 · 2Chr 16:12 · Job 5:17 · Job 7:4 · Job 20:11 · +9 more

20so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Job 3:24 · Ps 107:17 · Jer 3:19 · Amos 5:11

21His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.Cross-references: Job 7:5 · Job 13:28 · Job 14:20 · Job 14:22 · Job 16:8 · Job 19:20 · +5 more

22Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.Cross-references: Ex 12:23 · 1Sam 2:6 · 2Sam 24:16 · Job 7:7 · Job 15:21 · Job 17:1 · +9 more

23“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him,Cross-references: Judg 2:1 · 2Chr 36:15 · Neh 9:33 · Job 9:3 · Job 11:6 · Job 34:10 · +23 more

24then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’Cross-references: Ex 33:19 · Ex 34:6 · Job 22:21 · Job 33:18 · Job 36:10 · Job 36:18 · +19 more

25His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.Cross-references: Deut 34:7 · Josh 14:10 · 2Ki 5:14 · Job 42:16 · Ps 103:5 · Hos 2:15

26He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.Cross-references: Num 6:25 · 1Sam 26:23 · 2Ki 20:2 · 2Chr 33:12 · 2Chr 33:19 · Job 22:26 · +26 more

27He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.Cross-references: Gen 16:13 · Num 12:11 · 2Sam 12:13 · 2Chr 16:9 · Job 7:20 · Job 34:9 · +21 more

28He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’Cross-references: Job 3:9 · Job 3:16 · Job 3:20 · Job 17:16 · Job 22:28 · Job 33:18 · +10 more

29“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,Cross-references: 2Ki 6:10 · Job 33:14 · Job 40:5 · 1Cor 12:6 · 2Cor 5:5 · 2Cor 12:8 · +4 more

30to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.Cross-references: Job 33:24 · Job 33:28 · Ps 40:1 · Ps 56:13 · Ps 118:17 · Isa 2:5 · +3 more

31Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.Cross-references: Job 13:6 · Job 18:2 · Job 21:2 · Job 32:11

32If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.Cross-references: Job 15:4 · Job 21:27 · Job 22:5 · Job 27:5

33If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”Cross-references: Job 33:3 · Ps 34:11 · Ps 49:3 · Prov 4:1 · Prov 5:1 · Prov 8:5