Job 33.20
English standard version

¹ But now, hear my speech, O Job,
and listen to all my words.
² Behold, I open my mouth;
the tongue in my mouth speaks.
³ My words declare the uprightness of my heart,
and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
⁴ The Spirit of God has made me,
and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
⁵ Answer me, if you can;
set your words in order before me; take your stand.
⁶ Behold, I am toward God as you are;
I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
⁷ Behold, no fear of me need terrify you;
my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
⁸ Surely you have spoken in my ears,
and I have heard the sound of your words.
⁹ You say, I am pure, without transgression;
I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
¹⁰ Behold, he finds occasions against me,
he counts me as his enemy,
¹¹ he puts my feet in the stocks
and watches all my paths.
¹² Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you,
for God is greater than man.
¹³ Why do you contend against him,
saying, He will answer none of man's words?
¹⁴ For God speaks in one way,
and in two, though man does not perceive it.
¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falls on men,
while they slumber on their beds,
¹⁶ then he opens the ears of men
and terrifies them with warnings,
¹⁷ that he may turn man aside from his deed
and conceal pride from a man;
¹⁸ he keeps back his soul from the pit,
his life from perishing by the sword.
¹⁹ Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed
and with continual strife in his bones,
²⁰ so that his life loathes bread,
and his appetite the choicest food.
²¹ His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
and his bones that were not seen stick out.
²² His soul draws near the pit,
and his life to those who bring death.
²³ If there be for him an angel,
a mediator, one of the thousand,
to declare to man what is right for him,
²⁴ and he is merciful to him, and says,
Deliver him from going down into the pit;
I have found a ransom;
²⁵ let his flesh become fresh with youth;
let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;
²⁶ then man prays to God, and he accepts him;
he sees his face with a shout of joy,
and he restores to man his righteousness.
²⁷ He sings before men and says:
I sinned and perverted what was right,
and it was not repaid to me.
²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit,
and my life shall look upon the light.
²⁹ Behold, God does all these things,
twice, three times, with a man,
³⁰ to bring back his soul from the pit,
that he may be lighted with the light of life.
³¹ Pay attention, O Job, listen to me;
be silent, and I will speak.
³² If you have any words, answer me;
speak, for I desire to justify you.
³³ If not, listen to me;
be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.