Job 33:14–28

¹⁴“Indeed ^aGod speaks once,

Or twice, yet no one perceives it.

¹⁵“In a ^adream, a vision of the night,

When deep sleep falls on men,

While they slumber in their beds,

¹⁶Then ^aHe opens the ears of men,

And seals in their discipline,

¹⁷That He may turn man aside from his conduct,

And ¹keep man from pride;

¹⁸He ^aholds back his soul from the pit,

And his life from passing over ¹to death ^bby a weapon.

¹⁹“¹Man is also reproved with ^apain on his bed,

And with unceasing contention in his bones,

²⁰So that his life ^aloathes bread,

And his soul favorite food.

²¹“His ^aflesh wastes away from sight,

And his ^bbones which were not seen stick out.

²²“Then ^ahis soul draws near to the pit,

And his life to those who bring death.

²³“If there is an angel as ^amediator for him,

One out of a thousand,

To declare to a man what is ¹right for him,

²⁴Then let him be gracious to him, and say,

‘Deliver him from ^agoing down to the pit;

I have found ^batonement’;

²⁵Let his flesh become fresher than in youth,

Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;

²⁶Then he will ^aentreat God, and He will accept him,

And ^bhe will see His face with joyful shouts,

And He may restore His righteousness to man.

²⁷“He will sing to men and say,

‘I ^ahave sinned and perverted what is right,

But He has not done ^bwhat is due to me.

²⁸‘He has redeemed my soul from passing into the pit,

And my life shall ^asee the light.’