¹And yet, hear please, O Job, my speech, and give ear to all my words.

²Behold, I have opened wide my mouth; my tongue speaks in my palate.

³My words are the uprightness of my heart, and my lips speak knowledge purely.

⁴The breath of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

⁵If you are able, give me back your words; arrange them before my face, and take your stand.

⁶Behold, I am like you toward God; from clay I too was pinched off.

⁷Behold, my dread will not terrify you, and my pressure on you will not be heavy.

⁸Surely you said in my ears, and I heard the sound of your words:

⁹Pure am I, without transgression; clean am I, and there is no guilt in me.

¹⁰Behold, he finds grounds of opposition against me; he reckons me as an enemy to him.

¹¹He puts my feet in the stocks; he keeps watch on all my paths.

¹²Behold, in this you are not in the right; I will answer you, for God is greater than a man.

¹³Why have you contended against him, that he does not answer any of his words?

¹⁴For God speaks once, and twice, though one does not regard it.

¹⁵In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people, in slumbers upon the bed,

¹⁶then he uncovers the ear of people, and seals them in their discipline,

¹⁷to turn aside a person from his deed, and to cover pride away from a man,

¹⁸to keep back his being from the pit, and his life from passing away by the weapon.

¹⁹He is reproved with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones is unceasing.

²⁰His life loathes bread, and his being the food of delight.

²¹His flesh wastes away from view, and his bones that were not seen are laid bare.

²²His being draws near to the pit, and his life to those who bring death.

²³If there is over him a messenger, an interpreter, one out of a thousand, to tell a person his uprightness,

²⁴then he shows favor to him and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.

²⁵His flesh grows fresher than in youth; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.

²⁶He prays to God, who accepts him; he sees God's face with a shout of joy, and God gives back to a person his righteousness.

²⁷He watches over people and says, I have sinned, and what was upright I perverted, and it was not requited to me.

²⁸He has ransomed his being from passing on into the pit, and his life sees the light.

²⁹Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,

³⁰to bring his being back from the pit, to be lit up by the light of life.

³¹Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; keep silent, and I will speak.

³²If there are words, bring me back word; speak, for I delight to declare you righteous.

³³If not, you listen to me; keep silent, and I will teach you wisdom.