1<\/sup>Therefore, hear my speeches, Job, and listen to all my words.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Behold, I have opened my mouth; let my tongue speak along with my throat.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>My words are from my simple heart, and my lips will speak a pure judgment.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>If you can, answer me, and oppose me to my face.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>So, truly, do not let my wonders terrify you, and do not let my eloquence be burdensome to you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>For you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying:<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>“I am clean and without sin; I am immaculate, and there is no iniquity in me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Yet he has discovered blame in me, and so he has treated me like his enemy.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>He has put my feet in fetters; he has kept watch over all my ways.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Therefore, it is for this reason that you have not been justified. For I tell you that God is greater than man.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>God speaks once, and he does not repeat the same thing a second time.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in their beds,<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>then, he opens the ears of men, and, educating them, he teaches discipline,<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>so that he may divert a man from the things that he is doing, and may free him from pride,<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>rescuing his soul from corruption and his life from passing away by the sword.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Likewise, he rebukes by sorrow in bed, and he causes all of his bones to become weak.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Bread becomes abominable to him in his life, and, to his soul, the meat which before he desired.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>His body will waste away, and his bones, which had been covered, will be revealed.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>His soul has approached corruption, and his life has drawn near to what is deadly.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>If there were an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare the fairness of the man,<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>he will have mercy on him, and he will say, “Free him, so that he will not descend to destruction. I have found a reason to be favorable to him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>His body is consumed by suffering. Let him return to the days of his youth.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>He will beg pardon from God, and he will be soothing to him; and he will look upon his face in jubilation, and he will restore his justice to man.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>He will consider mankind, and he will say: “I have sinned and truly I have offended, yet I was not treated as I deserved.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>He has freed his soul from continuing into destruction, so that, in living, it may see the light.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>Behold, all these things God works three times within each one,<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>so that he may revive their souls from corruption and enlighten them with the light of life.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>Pay attention Job, and listen to me; and remain silent, while I speak.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>Yet, if you have anything to say, answer me and speak, for I want you to be treated justly.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>But if you do not have anything to say, then listen to me. Be quiet and I will teach you wisdom.<\/span> <\/p>\n