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    Job · 33 verses

    Job 33

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    A man can waste away until his bones show, draw near to the Pit, and then—rather briskly—have his flesh refreshed like a child’s and return to the days of his youth.

    Elihu opens his casevv. 1–13

    Elihu asks Job to listen, presenting himself as clay-made and no terror at all: a fellow creature before God, with an address already waiting on the tip of his tongue. He repeats Job’s complaint that God treats him as an enemy and keeps watch over his paths, then answers with the brisk correction that God is greater than man.

    The many voices of warningvv. 14–22

    Elihu says God speaks in more than one way, though nobody notices: by dreams and night visions, opening ears and frightening sleepers away from wrongdoing and pride. Or else the lesson arrives in bed, as pain strips appetite, flesh, and finally the comfortable distance from death. The chapter is not shy about its bedside manner.

    The mediator and the returnvv. 23–33

    At the edge of the Pit, an extraordinary possibility appears: one mediator in a thousand may tell a man what is right, announce a ransom, and ask that he be spared. Then the wasted body is renewed, prayer finds favour, joy returns, and the rescued man sings that he did not receive what he deserved. Elihu says God does all these things two or even three times, before summoning Job either to answer or to keep quiet and learn wisdom.

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    1. Job 33:1“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

    2. Job 33:2Behold, I will open my mouth; my address is on the tip of my tongue.

    3. Job 33:3My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.

    4. Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

    5. Job 33:5Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.

    6. Job 33:6I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

    7. Job 33:7Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.

    8. Job 33:8Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:

    9. Job 33:9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

    10. Job 33:10Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

    11. Job 33:11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’

    12. Job 33:12Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

    13. Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

    14. Job 33:14For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

    15. Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

    16. Job 33:16He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

    17. Job 33:17to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,

    18. Job 33:18to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

    19. Job 33:19A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

    20. Job 33:20so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

    21. Job 33:21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.

    22. Job 33:22He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

    23. Job 33:23Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

    24. Job 33:24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’

    25. Job 33:25then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.

    26. Job 33:26He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.

    27. Job 33:27Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

    28. Job 33:28He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

    29. Job 33:29Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

    30. Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

    31. Job 33:31Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

    32. Job 33:32But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.

    33. Job 33:33But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”

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    • 4Job 32:8But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
    • 4Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
    • 25Psalms 103:5who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
    • 252 Kings 5:14So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.
    • 4Job 27:3as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
    • 15Numbers 12:6He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
    • 4Job 10:12You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
    • 41 Corinthians 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
    • 25Joshua 14:10–11Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,
    • 15Job 4:13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
    • 25Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
    • 25Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
    • 14Proverbs 1:24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
    • 15Genesis 20:3One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
    • 15Genesis 31:24But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
    • 4Psalms 33:6By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

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