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“Surely you have spoken in my hearing,
And I have heard the sound of your words, saying:

‘I am pure, without transgression;
I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.
10 
‘Behold, God finds pretexts against me;
He counts me as His enemy.
11 
‘He puts my feet in the stocks [to hinder and humiliate me];
He [suspiciously] watches all my paths,’ [you say].
12 
“Look, let me answer you, in this you are not right or just;
For God is greater and far superior to man.

13 
“Why do you complain against Him?
That He does not answer [you with] all His doings.

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“You have in fact spoken [a]while I listened,
And I heard the sound of your words:
‘I am (A)pure, (B)without wrongdoing;
I am innocent and there (C)is no guilt in me.
10 Behold, He [b]invents [c]criticisms against me;
He (D)counts me as His enemy.
11 He (E)puts my feet in the stocks;
He watches all my paths.’
12 Behold, let me respond to you, (F)you are not right in this,
For God is greater than mankind.

13 “Why do you (G)complain to Him
That He does not give an account of all His doings?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:8 Lit in my ears
  2. Job 33:10 Lit finds
  3. Job 33:10 Or complaints