⁸ “Surely you have spoken in my ears,
    and I have heard the sound of your words.
⁹ You say, ‘I am ^(I)pure, without ^(J)transgression;
    I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
¹⁰ Behold, he finds occasions against me,
    he ^(K)counts me as his enemy,
¹¹ he ^(L)puts my feet in the stocks
    and ^(M)watches all my paths.’

¹² “Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you,
    for God is greater than man.
¹³ Why do you ^(N)contend against him,
    saying, ‘He ^(O)will answer none of man's^[a] words’?^[b]
14 For God ^(P)speaks in one way,
    ^(Q)and in two, though man ^(R)does not perceive it.
¹⁵ In ^(S)a dream, in ^(T)a vision of ^(U)the night,
    when ^(V)deep sleep falls on men,
    while they slumber on their beds,
¹⁶ then he ^(W)opens the ears of men
    and terrifies^[c] them with warnings,
¹⁷ that he may turn man aside from his ^(X)deed
    and conceal pride from a man;
¹⁸ he keeps back his soul from the pit,
    his life from ^(Y)perishing by the sword.

¹⁹ “Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed
    and with continual strife in his ^(Z)bones,
²⁰ so that his ^(AA)life loathes bread,
    and his appetite ^(AB)the choicest food.
²¹ His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
    and his bones that were not seen ^(AC)stick out.
²² His soul draws near ^(AD)the pit,
    and his life to ^(AE)those who bring death.
²³ If there be for him ^(AF)an angel,
    ^(AG)a mediator, ^(AH)one of the thousand,
    to declare to man what is ^(AI)right for him,
²⁴ and he is merciful to him, and says,
    ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit;
    I have found ^(AJ)a ransom;
²⁵ let his flesh ^(AK)become fresh with youth;
    let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;
²⁶ then man^{[d] (AL)}prays to God, and he accepts him;
    he ^(AM)sees his face with a shout of joy,
and he ^(AN)restores to man his righteousness.
²⁷     He sings before men and says:
‘I ^(AO)sinned and perverted what was right,
    and it was not repaid to me.
²⁸ He has redeemed my ^(AP)soul from going down ^(AQ)into the pit,
    and my life shall ^(AR)look upon the light.’

²⁹ “Behold, God does all these things,
    twice, ^(AS)three times, with a man,
³⁰ to bring back his soul from the pit,
    that he may be lighted with ^(AT)the light of life.
³¹ Pay attention, O Job, listen to me;
    be silent, and I will speak.
³² If you have any words, ^(AU)answer me;
    ^(AV)speak, for I desire to justify you.
³³ If not, ^(AW)listen to me;
    be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”