² God looks down from heaven^(D)
    on all mankind
to see if there are any who understand,^(E)
    any who seek God.^(F)
3 Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt;
    there is no one who does good,
    not even one.^(G)

⁴ Do all these evildoers know nothing?

They devour my people as though eating bread;
    they never call on God.
⁵ But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,
    where there was nothing to dread.^(H)
God scattered the bones^(I) of those who attacked you;^(J)
    you put them to shame,^(K) for God despised them.^(L)

⁶ Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
    When God restores his people,
    let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!

“I am young in years,
    and you are old;^(J)
that is why I was fearful,
    not daring to tell you what I know.
⁷ I thought, ‘Age should speak;
    advanced years should teach wisdom.’^(K)
8 But it is the spirit^[b](L) in a person,
    the breath of the Almighty,^(M) that gives them understanding.^(N)
9 It is not only the old^[c] who are wise,^(O)
    not only the aged^(P) who understand what is right.^(Q)

¹⁰ “Therefore I say: Listen to me;^(R)
    I too will tell you what I know.^(S)

¹⁹ inside I am like bottled-up wine,
    like new wineskins ready to burst.^(A)

33 “But now, Job, listen^(A) to my words;
    pay attention to everything I say.^(B)

¹² “But I tell you, in this you are not right,
    for God is greater than any mortal.^(A)
13 Why do you complain to him^(B)
    that he responds to no one’s words^[a]?^(C)
14 For God does speak^(D)—now one way, now another^(E)—
    though no one perceives it.^(F)
15 In a dream,^(G) in a vision^(H) of the night,^(I)
    when deep sleep^(J) falls on people
    as they slumber in their beds,
¹⁶ he may speak^(K) in their ears
    and terrify them^(L) with warnings,^(M)
17 to turn them from wrongdoing
    and keep them from pride,^(N)
18 to preserve them from the pit,^(O)
    their lives from perishing by the sword.^[b](P)

¹⁹ “Or someone may be chastened^(Q) on a bed of pain^(R)
    with constant distress in their bones,^(S)
20 so that their body finds food^(T) repulsive
    and their soul loathes the choicest meal.^(U)
21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,^(V) once hidden, now stick out.^(W)
22 They draw near to the pit,^(X)
    and their life to the messengers of death.^[c](Y)
23 Yet if there is an angel at their side,
    a messenger,^(Z) one out of a thousand,
    sent to tell them how to be upright,^(AA)
24 and he is gracious to that person and says to God,
    ‘Spare them from going down to the pit;^(AB)
    I have found a ransom for them^(AC)—
²⁵ let their flesh be renewed^(AD) like a child’s;
    let them be restored as in the days of their youth’^(AE)—
²⁶ then that person can pray to God and find favor with him,^(AF)
    they will see God’s face and shout for joy;^(AG)
    he will restore them to full well-being.^(AH)
27 And they will go to others and say,
    ‘I have sinned,^(AI) I have perverted what is right,^(AJ)
    but I did not get what I deserved.^(AK)
28 God has delivered^(AL) me from going down to the pit,^(AM)
    and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.’^(AN)

¹⁶ “‘After this I will return
    and rebuild David’s fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild,
    and I will restore it,
¹⁷ that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
    even all the Gentiles who bear my name,
says the Lord, who does these things’^[b](E)—
¹⁸     things known from long ago.^[c](F)