1<\/sup>Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.<\/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 thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Now thou has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words :<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>I am clean, and without sin : I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified : I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds :<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Rescuing his soul from corruption : and his life from passing to the sword.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness,<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>He shall have mercy on him, and shall say : Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption : I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return to the days of his youth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him : and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>He shall look upon men, and shall say : I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>Attend, Job, and hearken to me : and hold thy peace, whilst I speak.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak : for I would have thee to appear just.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>And if thou have not, hear me : hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.<\/span> <\/p>\n