Job 33:15–28

¹⁵In a dream, in a vision of the night,

when deep sleep falls on mortals,

while they slumber on their beds,^*

¹⁶then he opens their ears

and terrifies them with warnings,^*

¹⁷that he may turn them aside from their deeds

and keep them from pride,

¹⁸to spare their souls from the Pit,

their lives from traversing the River.

¹⁹They are also chastened with pain upon their beds

and with continual strife in their bones,^*

²⁰so that their lives loathe bread

and their appetites dainty food.^*

²¹Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,

and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.^*

²²Their souls draw near the Pit

and their lives to those who bring death.^*

²³Then, if there should be for one of them an angel,

a mediator, one of a thousand,

one who declares a person upright,^*

²⁴and he is gracious to that person and says,

‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit;

I have found a ransom;^*

²⁵let his flesh become fresh with youth;

let him return to the days of his youthful vigor,’^*

²⁶then he prays to God and is accepted by him;

he comes into his presence with joy,

and God^o repays him for his righteousness.^*

²⁷That person sings to others and says,

‘I sinned and perverted what was right,

and it was not paid back to me.^*

²⁸He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit,

and my life shall see the light.’^*