Job 33:12-25

English Standard Version

¹²“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you,
    for God is greater than man.
¹³Why do you ^(A)contend against him,
    saying, ‘He ^(B)will answer none of man's^[a] words’?^[b]
¹⁴For God ^(C)speaks in one way,
    ^(D)and in two, though man ^(E)does not perceive it.
¹⁵In ^(F)a dream, in ^(G)a vision of ^(H)the night,
    when ^(I)deep sleep falls on men,
    while they slumber on their beds,
¹⁶then he ^(J)opens the ears of men
    and terrifies^[c] them with warnings,
¹⁷that he may turn man aside from his ^(K)deed
    and conceal pride from a man;
¹⁸he keeps back his soul from the pit,
    his life from ^(L)perishing by the sword.

¹⁹“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed
    and with continual strife in his ^(M)bones,
²⁰so that his ^(N)life loathes bread,
    and his appetite ^(O)the choicest food.
²¹His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
    and his bones that were not seen ^(P)stick out.
²²His soul draws near ^(Q)the pit,
    and his life to ^(R)those who bring death.
²³If there be for him ^(S)an angel,
    ^(T)a mediator, ^(U)one of the thousand,
    to declare to man what is ^(V)right for him,
²⁴and he is merciful to him, and says,
    ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit;
    I have found ^(W)a ransom;
²⁵let his flesh ^(X)become fresh with youth;
    let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;