Job 33:14–28

¹⁴For God does speak^o—now one way, now another^p—

though no one perceives it.^q

¹⁵In a dream,^r in a vision^s of the night,^t

when deep sleep^u falls on people

as they slumber in their beds,

¹⁶he may speak^v in their ears

and terrify them^w with warnings,^x

¹⁷to turn them from wrongdoing

and keep them from pride,^y

¹⁸to preserve them from the pit,^z

their lives from perishing by the sword.^ba

¹⁹“Or someone may be chastened^b on a bed of pain^c

with constant distress in their bones,^d

²⁰so that their body finds food^e repulsive

and their soul loathes the choicest meal.^f

²¹Their flesh wastes away to nothing,

and their bones,^g once hidden, now stick out.^h

²²They draw near to the pit,ⁱ

and their life to the messengers of death.^cj

²³Yet if there is an angel at their side,

a messenger,^k one out of a thousand,

sent to tell them how to be upright,^l

²⁴and he is gracious to that person and says to God,

‘Spare them from going down to the pit;^m

I have found a ransom for themⁿ—

²⁵let their flesh be renewed^o like a child’s;

let them be restored as in the days of their youth’^p—

²⁶then that person can pray to God and find favor with him,^q

they will see God’s face and shout for joy;^r

he will restore them to full well-being.^s

²⁷And they will go to others and say,

‘I have sinned,^t I have perverted what is right,^u

but I did not get what I deserved.^v

²⁸God has delivered^w me from going down to the pit,^x

and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.’^y