| 1 | Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words. |
| 2 | Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws. |
| 3 | My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence. |
| 4 | The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life. |
| 5 | If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face. |
| 6 | Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed. |
| 7 | But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee. |
| 8 | Now thou has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words: |
| 9 | I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me. |
| 10 | Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy. |
| 11 | He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed 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. |
| 13 | Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words? |
| 14 | God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time. |
| 15 | By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds: |
| 16 | Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn. |
| 17 | That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride. |
| 18 | Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword. |
| 19 | He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither. |
| 20 | Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired. |
| 21 | His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare. |
| 22 | His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers. |
| 23 | If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness, |
| 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. |
| 25 | His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return 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. |
| 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. |
| 28 | He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light. |
| 29 | Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one. |
| 30 | That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living. |
| 31 | Attend, Job, and hearken to me: and hold thy peace, whilst I speak. |
| 32 | But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would have thee to appear just. |
| 33 | And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom. |
