1 GLT So now, Job, I beg you, hear my speech; listen to all my words. BSB BSB: “But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
2 GLT See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue has spoken in my mouth. BSB BSB: Behold, I will open my mouth; my address is on the tip of my tongue.
3 GLT My words come from the uprightness of my heart; my lips speak pure knowledge. BSB BSB: My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
4 GLT The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty has given me life. BSB BSB: The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5 GLT If you can, answer me; set your words in order before me and stand up. BSB BSB: Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
6 GLT See, I am just as you are in God’ s sight; I also have been formed out of the clay. BSB BSB: I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
7 GLT See, terror of me will not make you afraid; neither will my pressure be heavy upon you. BSB BSB: Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
8 GLT You have certainly spoken in my hearing; I have heard the sound of your words saying, BSB BSB: Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:
9 GLT ‘I am clean and without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no sin in me. BSB BSB: ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
10 GLT See, God finds opportunities to attack me; he regards me as his enemy. BSB BSB: Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
11 GLT He puts my feet in stocks; he watches all my paths.’ BSB BSB: He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
12 GLT See, in this you are not right— I will answer you, for God is greater than man. BSB BSB: Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
13 GLT Why do you struggle against him? He does not account for any of his doings. BSB BSB: Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
14 GLT For God speaks once— yes, twice, though man does not notice it. BSB BSB: For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.
15 GLT In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumber on the bed— BSB BSB: In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
16 GLT then God opens the ears of men, and frightens them with threats, BSB BSB: He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings
17 GLT in order to pull man back from his sinful purposes, and keep pride from him. BSB BSB: to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,
18 GLT God keeps man’ s life back from the pit, his life from crossing over to death. BSB BSB: to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
19 GLT Man is punished also with pain on his bed, with constant agony in his bones, BSB BSB: A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
20 GLT so that his life abhors food, and his soul abhors delicacies. BSB BSB: so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
21 GLT His flesh is consumed away so that it cannot be seen; his bones, once not seen, now stick out. BSB BSB: His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
22 GLT Indeed, his soul draws close to the pit, his life to those who wish to destroy it. BSB BSB: He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
23 GLT But if there is an angel who can be a mediator for him, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him, BSB BSB: Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
24 GLT to be gracious to him and say,‘Save this person from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for him.’ BSB BSB: to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
25 GLT Then his flesh will become fresher than a child’ s; it is restored to the days of his youth. BSB BSB: then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.
26 GLT He will pray to God, and God will be kind to him, so that he sees God’ s face with joy. God will give the person his triumph. BSB BSB: He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.
27 GLT Then that person will sing in front of other people and say,‘I sinned and perverted that which was right, but my sin was not punished. BSB BSB: Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
28 GLT God has rescued my soul from going down into the pit; my life will continue to see light.’ BSB BSB: He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
29 GLT See, God does all these things with a person, twice, yes, even three times, BSB BSB: Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,
30 GLT to bring his soul back from the pit, so that he may be enlightened with the light of life. BSB BSB: to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
31 GLT Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent and I will speak. BSB BSB: Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
32 GLT If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I wish to prove that you are in the right. BSB BSB: But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
33 GLT If not, then listen to me; remain silent, and I will teach you wisdom.” BSB BSB: But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”
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