Eliu blames Job for asserting his own innocence.
33:1. Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
33:2. Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my
jaws.
33:3. My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a
pure sentence.
33:4. The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me
life.
33:5. If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.
33:6. Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I
also was formed.
33:7. But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence
be burdensome to thee.
33:8. Now thou hast said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of
thy words:
33:9. I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no
iniquity in me.
33:10. Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath
counted me for his enemy.
33:11. He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my
paths.
33:12. Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will
answer thee, that God is greater than man.
33:13. Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee
to all words?
33:14. God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the
second time.
33:15. By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon
men, and they are sleeping in their beds:
33:16. Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them
in what they are to learn.
33:17. That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may
deliver him from pride.
33:18. Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to
the sword.
33:19. He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his
bones to wither.
33:20. Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul
the meat which before he desired.
33:21. His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were
covered shall be made bare.
33:22. His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the
destroyers.
33:23. If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among
thousands, to declare man’s uprightness,
33:24. 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.
33:25. His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the
days of his youth.
33:26. 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.
33:27. 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.
33:28. He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it
may live and see the light.
33:29. Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every
one.
33:30. That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten
them with the light of the living.
33:31. Attend, Job, and hearken to me, and hold thy peace, whilst I
speak.
33:32. But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would
have thee to appear just.
33:33. And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy peace, and I will teach
thee wisdom.