{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/job/33","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:39:59.414Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":33,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":32,"nextChapter":34,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand forth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my pressure be heavy on you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"|Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"|If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"|Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 33 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 33](https://primebible.com/web/job/33)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/33 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}