Job 33:14-22

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¹⁴ For God speaks in one way
    and in two, though people do not perceive it.^(A)
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night,
    when deep sleep falls on mortals,
    while they slumber on their beds,^(B)
16 then he opens their ears
    and terrifies them with warnings,^(C)
17 that he may turn them aside from their deeds
    and keep them from pride,
¹⁸ to spare their souls from the Pit,
    their lives from traversing the River.
¹⁹ They are also chastened with pain upon their beds
    and with continual strife in their bones,^(D)
20 so that their lives loathe bread
    and their appetites dainty food.^(E)
21 Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
    and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.^(F)
22 Their souls draw near the Pit
    and their lives to those who bring death.^(G)