### Douay Rheims Bible

Job 32

## The Book of Job

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

Job 34

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