Job 33:14–28

¹⁴Indeed, God speaks in one way,

even^g in two,^h yet someone does not perceive it.

¹⁵“In a dream, a vision of the night,

when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed,

¹⁶then he opens the ear of men,

and he frightens them with a warningⁱ

¹⁷to turn human beings aside from their deeds,

and he keeps man from pride.

¹⁸He spares his life from the pit

and his life from passing over the river of death.

¹⁹“And he is reproved with pain on his bed,

even^j with the strife of his bones continually,

²⁰so that^k his life loathes bread,

and his inner self^l loathes appetizing food.^m

²¹His flesh is wasted away from sight,

and his bones, which are invisible, are bared.

²²And heⁿ draws near to the pit

and his life to the killers.

²³“If there is a messenger beside him, a mediator, one of a thousand,^o

to declare to a human being his uprightness

²⁴so that^p he is gracious to him, and he says,

‘Deliver him from descending into the pit;

I have found a ransom.’

²⁵His flesh is renewed with his youth;

he returns to the days of his youthful strength.

²⁶He prays to God, then he accepts him,

and he sees his face with a shout of joy,

and he repays to the human being his righteousness.

²⁷“He will sing to men, and he will say,

‘I have sinned and have perverted what is right,

and it was not paid back to me.

²⁸He redeemed my life from going down into the pit,

so^q I will enjoy the light.’^r