12-14 “But let me tell you, Job, you’re wrong, dead wrong!
    God is far greater than any human.
So how dare you haul him into court,
    and then complain that he won’t answer your charges?
God always answers, one way or another,
    even when people don’t recognize his presence.

15-18 “In a dream, for instance, a vision at night,
    when men and women are deep in sleep,
    fast asleep in their beds—
God opens their ears
    and impresses them with warnings
To turn them back from something bad they’re planning,
    from some reckless choice,
And keep them from an early grave,
    from the river of no return.

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13 Why do you complain to him(A)
    that he responds to no one’s words[a]?(B)
14 For God does speak(C)—now one way, now another(D)
    though no one perceives it.(E)
15 In a dream,(F) in a vision(G) of the night,(H)
    when deep sleep(I) falls on people
    as they slumber in their beds,

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Footnotes

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