MLV(i)
1 However, Job, I beseech you, hear my speech and listen to all my words.
2 Behold now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
3 My words will utter the uprightness of my heart and what my lips know they will speak sincerely.
4 The Spirit of God has made me and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5 If you can, answer you me. Set your words in order before me. Stand forth. 6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I also am formed out of the clay. 7 Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, nor will my pressure be heavy upon you.
8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing and I have heard the voice of your words, saying, 9 I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. 10 You say, Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. 11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.
12 Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man. 13 Why do you strive against him because he does not give account of any of his matters?
14 For God speaks once, yes twice, though man does not regard it. 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed.
16 Then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction 17 that he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man. 18 He keeps back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
19 He also is chastened with pain upon his bed and with continual strife in his bones, 20 so that his life abhors bread and his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen stick out.
22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there is with him a messenger, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for 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 will be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth.
26 He prays to God and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy and he restores to man his righteousness. 27 He sings before men and says, I have sinned and perverted what was right and it did not profit me. 28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit and my life will behold the light.
29 Behold, all these things God works twice, yes three times, with a man, 30 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
31 Mark well, O Job, listen to me. Keep silent and I will speak. 32 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you. 33 If not, listen to me. Keep silent and I will teach you.
5 If you can, answer you me. Set your words in order before me. Stand forth. 6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I also am formed out of the clay. 7 Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, nor will my pressure be heavy upon you.
8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing and I have heard the voice of your words, saying, 9 I am clean, without transgression. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. 10 You say, Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. 11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.
12 Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man. 13 Why do you strive against him because he does not give account of any of his matters?
14 For God speaks once, yes twice, though man does not regard it. 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed.
16 Then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction 17 that he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man. 18 He keeps back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
19 He also is chastened with pain upon his bed and with continual strife in his bones, 20 so that his life abhors bread and his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen stick out.
22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there is with him a messenger, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for 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 will be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth.
26 He prays to God and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy and he restores to man his righteousness. 27 He sings before men and says, I have sinned and perverted what was right and it did not profit me. 28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit and my life will behold the light.
29 Behold, all these things God works twice, yes three times, with a man, 30 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
31 Mark well, O Job, listen to me. Keep silent and I will speak. 32 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you. 33 If not, listen to me. Keep silent and I will teach you.