Job 33:14–28

¹⁴God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.

¹⁵By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:

¹⁶Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.

¹⁷That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.

¹⁸Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.

¹⁹He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.

²⁰Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.

²¹His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.

²²His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.

²³If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man’s uprightness,

²⁴He 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.

²⁵His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the days of his youth.

²⁶He 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.

²⁷He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.

²⁸He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.