“But you have said in my hearing—
    I heard the very words—
‘I am pure,(A) I have done no wrong;(B)
    I am clean and free from sin.(C)
10 Yet God has found fault with me;
    he considers me his enemy.(D)
11 He fastens my feet in shackles;(E)
    he keeps close watch on all my paths.’(F)

12 “But I tell you, in this you are not right,
    for God is greater than any mortal.(G)
13 Why do you complain to him(H)
    that he responds to no one’s words[a]?(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:13 Or that he does not answer for any of his actions

Surely you have spoken in my hearing,
and I have heard these very[a] words:
“I am pure, without transgression;
I am clean and have no guilt.(A)
10 But He finds reasons to oppose me;
He regards me as His enemy.(B)
11 He puts my feet in the stocks;
He stands watch(C) over all my paths.”

12 But I tell you that you are wrong in this matter,
since God is greater than man.(D)
13 Why do you take(E) Him to court
for not answering anything a person asks?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:8 Lit heard a sound of
  2. Job 33:13 Lit court, for He does not answer all his words