Job 33
Elihu continues to speak
Listen carefully to everything that I say.
I am ready to tell you the thoughts that are in my mind.
All the things that I will say are true.
I am alive because of him.
Prepare yourself and get ready to speak with me.
God made both of us from dirt.
I will not do anything that might hurt you.
And these are the words that you spoke.
I have not done anything that was wrong.
And he thinks that I am his enemy.
And he always watches me. So he knows where I go.”
You know that God is greater than any man.
You should not say that he does not answer any of your questions.
He speaks to him again and again.
But often the man does not listen to him.
And he does not hear the things that God has said.
He speaks by the things that he dreams about.
And sometimes he is afraid because of the things that God says to him.
A man may think that he is important.
But God tells him that he is not very important.
He saves him from death.
God can send an illness like that to teach a man the right way to live.
He cannot eat even the food that he likes most.
He is so thin that people can see his bones.
Then he will go to the place where all dead people go.
Perhaps an angel will say, “This is a good man.”
And God will say, “I have found someone to pay on behalf of this person. So keep him alive.”
And he will be strong, like a young man.
He will again be God's friend.
And he will enjoy that.
God will know him to be a good man again.
I did not live the right way but God
And now I will live to enjoy the light.”
He does them twice and sometimes three times.
Then he lets them again enjoy their lives.
Be quiet, and I will speak to you.
Then I will be able to say to everyone that you are a good man.
Be quiet and I will teach you about