Job 33:6-18
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I am just like you before God;
I too have been taken from clay.
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No fear of me should alarm you,
nor should my hand be heavy upon you.
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“But you have said in my hearing—
I heard the very words—
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‘I am pure and without sin;
I am clean and free from guilt.
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Yet God has found fault with me;
he considers me his enemy.
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He fastens my feet in shackles;
he keeps close watch on all my paths.’
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“But I tell you, in this you are not right,
for God is greater than man.
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Why do you complain to him
that he answers none of man’s words?
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For God does speak—now one way, now another—
though man may not perceive it.
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In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falls on men
as they slumber in their beds,
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he may speak in their ears
and terrify them with warnings,
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to turn man from wrongdoing
and keep him from pride,
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to preserve his soul from the pit,
his life from perishing by the sword.