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Job 33 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
1 “However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
2 Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.
2 See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
3 My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.
3 My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.
4 The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.
4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5 If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.
5 If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up.
6 Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.
6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
7 But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.
7 Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you.
8 Now thou has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words:
8 “Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
9 I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.
9 ‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
10 Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.
10 Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
11 He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.
11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’
12 Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
12 “Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
13 Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?
13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
14 God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.
14 For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.
15 By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed,
16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.
16 then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
17 That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.
17 that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
18 Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.
18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
19 He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.
19 “He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
20 Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.
20 so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
21 His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.
21 His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
22 His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.
22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man’s uprightness,
23 “If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him,
24 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.
24 then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’
25 His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return to the days of his youth.
25 His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.
26 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.
26 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
27 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.
27 He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
28 He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.
28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
29 Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one.
29 “Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,
30 That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.
30 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
31 Attend, Job, and hearken to me: and hold thy peace, whilst I speak.
31 Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.
32 But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would have thee to appear just.
32 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.
33 And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.
33 If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”
Cross references (33)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Job 13:6; Job 34:2; Psalm 49:1–3; Mark 4:9
  2. 2 Job 3:1; Psalm 78:2; Matthew 5:2; Job 31:30
  3. 3 Job 27:4; 1 Thessalonians 2:3–4; Proverbs 20:15; Psalm 37:30–31; Proverbs 8:7–8
  4. 4 Job 32:8; Genesis 2:7; Job 27:3; Job 10:12; 1 Corinthians 15:45
  5. 5 Job 33:32–33; Acts 10:26; Job 23:4–5; Job 13:18; Job 32:14
  6. 6 Job 4:19; Job 10:9; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Job 20:22; Job 31:35
  7. 7 Job 13:21; Job 9:34; Psalm 32:4; Psalm 88:16
  8. 8 Jeremiah 29:23; Deuteronomy 13:14
  9. 9 Job 10:7; Job 16:17; Job 11:4; Job 9:21; Job 29:14
  10. 10 Job 19:11; Job 13:24–25; Job 30:21; Job 10:15–17; Job 31:35
  11. 11 Job 13:27; Job 31:4; Daniel 4:35; Psalm 105:18; Jeremiah 20:2
  12. 12 Job 36:5; Ezekiel 18:25; Job 35:2; Job 32:17; Job 34:17–19
  13. 13 Job 40:2; Isaiah 45:9; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35; Isaiah 46:10
  14. 14 Proverbs 1:24; 2 Chronicles 33:10; Psalm 62:11; Job 33:29; John 3:19
  15. 15 Numbers 12:6; Job 4:13; Genesis 20:3; Genesis 31:24; Daniel 4:5
  16. 16 Job 36:10; Job 36:15; Psalm 40:6; Isaiah 50:5; Luke 24:45
  17. 17 James 4:10; Isaiah 2:11; 2 Chronicles 32:25; Genesis 20:6; Matthew 27:19
  18. 18 Job 33:28; Job 33:30; 2 Peter 3:9; Romans 2:4; Job 15:22
  19. 19 Job 30:17; Job 5:17–18; Psalm 119:71; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Psalm 94:12
  20. 20 Psalm 107:17–18; Job 3:24; Jeremiah 3:19; Amos 5:11; Genesis 3:6
  21. 21 Job 19:20; Job 13:28; Job 7:5; Proverbs 5:11; Job 14:22
  22. 22 2 Samuel 24:16; Job 33:28; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Psalm 88:3–5; Job 17:1
  23. 23 Malachi 3:1; Ecclesiastes 7:28; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Haggai 1:13; Malachi 2:7
  24. 24 Psalm 49:7–8; Matthew 20:28; 1 Peter 1:18–19; Job 33:18; Hosea 14:4
  25. 25 Psalm 103:5; 2 Kings 5:14; Joshua 14:10–11; Deuteronomy 34:7; Job 42:16
  26. 26 Psalm 50:15; Psalm 30:5; Acts 2:28; Acts 9:11; Isaiah 30:19
  27. 27 Romans 6:21; 2 Samuel 12:13; Psalm 14:2; Jeremiah 31:18–19; Matthew 16:26
  28. 28 Job 33:24; Job 3:9; Job 3:16; Job 33:22; Job 3:20
  29. 29 Ephesians 1:11; Philippians 2:13; 1 Corinthians 12:6; Hebrews 13:21; 2 Corinthians 5:5
  30. 30 Psalm 56:13; Isaiah 38:17; Job 33:28; Psalm 40:1–2; Acts 26:18
  31. 31 Job 18:2; Job 21:2; Job 13:6; Job 32:11
  32. 32 Job 22:5–9; Job 15:4–5; Job 27:5; Job 21:27
  33. 33 Psalm 34:11; Proverbs 8:5; Job 33:3; Proverbs 4:1–2; Proverbs 5:1–2

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 33:4 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book I, Chapters VII–VIII)

    Job, too, says, The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)