Job 33:14–28

¹⁴For God speaks in one way,

and in two, though man does not perceive it.

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

when deep sleep falls upon men,

while they slumber on their beds,

¹⁶then he opens the ears of men,

and terrifies them with warnings,

¹⁷that he may turn man aside from his deed,

and cut off pride from man;

¹⁸he keeps back his soul from the Pit,

his life from perishing by the sword.

¹⁹“Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed,

and with continual strife in his bones;

²⁰so that his life loathes bread,

and his appetite dainty food.

²¹His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen;

and his bones which were not seen stick out.

²²His soul draws near the Pit,

and his life to those who bring death.

²³If there be for him an angel,

a mediator, one of the thousand,

to declare to man what is right for him;

²⁴and he is gracious to him, 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 man prays to God, and he accepts him,

he comes into his presence with joy.

He recounts to men his salvation,

²⁷and he sings before men, and says:

‘I sinned and perverted what was right,

and it was not requited to me.

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

and my life shall see the light.’