1 [Audi igitur, Job, eloquia mea, et omnes sermones meos ausculta. 2 Ecce aperui os meum: loquatur lingua mea in faucibus meis. 3 Simplici corde meo sermones mei, et sententiam puram labia mea loquentur. 4 Spiritus Dei fecit me, et spiraculum Omnipotentis vivificavit me. 5 Si potes, responde mihi, et adversus faciem meam consiste. 6 Ecce, et me sicut et te fecit Deus, et de eodem luto ego quoque formatus sum. 7 Verumtamen miraculum meum non te terreat, et eloquentia mea non sit tibi gravis. 8 Dixisti ergo in auribus meis, et vocem verborum tuorum audivi: 9 Mundus sum ego, et absque delicto: immaculatus, et non est iniquitas in me. 10 Quia querelas in me reperit, ideo arbitratus est me inimicum sibi. 11 Posuit in nervo pedes meos; custodivit omnes semitas meas. 12 Hoc est ergo in quo non es justificatus: respondebo tibi, quia major sit Deus homine. 13 Adversus eum contendis, quod non ad omnia verba responderit tibi? 14 Semel loquitur Deus, et secundo idipsum non repetit. 15 Per somnium, in visione nocturna, quando irruit sopor super homines, et dormiunt in lectulo, 16 tunc aperit aures virorum, et erudiens eos instruit disciplina, 17 ut avertat hominem ab his quæ facit, et liberet eum de superbia, 18 eruens animam ejus a corruptione, et vitam illius ut non transeat in gladium. 19 Increpat quoque per dolorem in lectulo, et omnia ossa ejus marcescere facit. 20 Abominabilis ei fit in vita sua panis, et animæ illius cibus ante desiderabilis. 21 Tabescet caro ejus, et ossa, quæ tecta fuerant, nudabuntur. 22 Appropinquavit corruptioni anima ejus, et vita illius mortiferis. 23 Si fuerit pro eo angelus loquens, unus de millibus, ut annuntiet hominis æquitatem, 24 miserebitur ejus, et dicet: Libera eum, ut non descendat in corruptionem: inveni in quo ei propitier. 25 Consumpta est caro ejus a suppliciis: revertatur ad dies adolescentiæ suæ. 26 Deprecabitur Deum, et placabilis ei erit: et videbit faciem ejus in jubilo, et reddet homini justitiam suam. 27 Respiciet homines, et dicet: Peccavi, et vere deliqui, et ut eram dignus, non recepi. 28 Liberavit animam suam, ne pergeret in interitum, sed vivens lucem videret. 29 Ecce hæc omnia operatur Deus tribus vicibus per singulos, 30 ut revocet animas eorum a corruptione, et illuminet luce viventium. 31 Attende, Job, et audi me: et tace, dum ego loquor. 32 Si autem habes quod loquaris, responde mihi: loquere, volo enim te apparere justum. 33 Quod si non habes, audi me: tace, et docebo te sapientiam.]
Job 33 Clementine Vulgate
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Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 13:6; Job 34:2; Psalm 49:1–3; Mark 4:9
- 2 Job 3:1; Psalm 78:2; Matthew 5:2; Job 31:30
- 3 Job 27:4; 1 Thessalonians 2:3–4; Proverbs 20:15; Psalm 37:30–31; Proverbs 8:7–8
- 4 Job 32:8; Genesis 2:7; Job 27:3; Job 10:12; 1 Corinthians 15:45
- 5 Job 33:32–33; Acts 10:26; Job 23:4–5; Job 13:18; Job 32:14
- 6 Job 4:19; Job 10:9; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Job 20:22; Job 31:35
- 7 Job 13:21; Job 9:34; Psalm 32:4; Psalm 88:16
- 8 Jeremiah 29:23; Deuteronomy 13:14
- 9 Job 10:7; Job 16:17; Job 11:4; Job 9:21; Job 29:14
- 10 Job 19:11; Job 13:24–25; Job 30:21; Job 10:15–17; Job 31:35
- 11 Job 13:27; Job 31:4; Daniel 4:35; Psalm 105:18; Jeremiah 20:2
- 12 Job 36:5; Ezekiel 18:25; Job 35:2; Job 32:17; Job 34:17–19
- 13 Job 40:2; Isaiah 45:9; Romans 11:34; Daniel 4:35; Isaiah 46:10
- 14 Proverbs 1:24; 2 Chronicles 33:10; Psalm 62:11; Job 33:29; John 3:19
- 15 Numbers 12:6; Job 4:13; Genesis 20:3; Genesis 31:24; Daniel 4:5
- 16 Job 36:10; Job 36:15; Psalm 40:6; Isaiah 50:5; Luke 24:45
- 17 James 4:10; Isaiah 2:11; 2 Chronicles 32:25; Genesis 20:6; Matthew 27:19
- 18 Job 33:28; Job 33:30; 2 Peter 3:9; Romans 2:4; Job 15:22
- 19 Job 30:17; Job 5:17–18; Psalm 119:71; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Psalm 94:12
- 20 Psalm 107:17–18; Job 3:24; Jeremiah 3:19; Amos 5:11; Genesis 3:6
- 21 Job 19:20; Job 13:28; Job 7:5; Proverbs 5:11; Job 14:22
- 22 2 Samuel 24:16; Job 33:28; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Psalm 88:3–5; Job 17:1
- 23 Malachi 3:1; Ecclesiastes 7:28; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Haggai 1:13; Malachi 2:7
- 24 Psalm 49:7–8; Matthew 20:28; 1 Peter 1:18–19; Job 33:18; Hosea 14:4
- 25 Psalm 103:5; 2 Kings 5:14; Joshua 14:10–11; Deuteronomy 34:7; Job 42:16
- 26 Psalm 50:15; Psalm 30:5; Acts 2:28; Acts 9:11; Isaiah 30:19
- 27 Romans 6:21; 2 Samuel 12:13; Psalm 14:2; Jeremiah 31:18–19; Matthew 16:26
- 28 Job 33:24; Job 3:9; Job 3:16; Job 33:22; Job 3:20
- 29 Ephesians 1:11; Philippians 2:13; 1 Corinthians 12:6; Hebrews 13:21; 2 Corinthians 5:5
- 30 Psalm 56:13; Isaiah 38:17; Job 33:28; Psalm 40:1–2; Acts 26:18
- 31 Job 18:2; Job 21:2; Job 13:6; Job 32:11
- 32 Job 22:5–9; Job 15:4–5; Job 27:5; Job 21:27
- 33 Psalm 34:11; Proverbs 8:5; Job 33:3; Proverbs 4:1–2; Proverbs 5:1–2
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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).
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“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).
Job, too, says, The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
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