Job 33:14–28

¹⁴Although God speaks again and again,

no one pays attention to what he says.

^15*At night when people are asleep,

God speaks in dreams and visions.

¹⁶He makes them listen to what he says,

and they are frightened at his warnings.

¹⁷God speaks to make them stop their sinning

and to save them from becoming proud.

¹⁸He will not let them be destroyed;

he saves them from death itself.

¹⁹God corrects people by sending sickness

and filling their bodies with pain.

²⁰Those who are sick lose their appetites,

and even the finest food looks revolting.

²¹Their bodies waste away to nothing;

you can see all their bones;

²²they are about to go to the world of the dead.

²³Perhaps an angel may come to their aid—

one of God’s thousands of angels, who remind us of our duty.

²⁴In mercy the angel will say, “Release them!

They are not to go down to the world of the dead.

Here is the ransom to set them free.”

²⁵Their bodies will grow young and strong again;

²⁶when they pray, God will answer;

they will worship God with joy;

God will set things right for them again.

²⁷Each one will say in public, “I have sinned.

I have not done right, but God spared me.

²⁸He kept me from going to the world of the dead,

and I am still alive.”