Job 33:14-22

Common English Bible

¹⁴ God speaks in one way,
    in two ways, but no one perceives it.
¹⁵ In the dream, a vision of the night,
    when deep sleep falls upon humans,
        during their slumber on a bed,
¹⁶     then he opens people’s ears,
        scares them with warnings,
¹⁷     to turn them from a deed
        and to smother human pride.
¹⁸ He keeps one from the pit,
    a life from perishing by the sword.
¹⁹ Or a person may be disciplined by pain
    while in bed, bones ever aching
²⁰     until a person loathes food,
        an appetite rejects a delicacy;
²¹     the flesh wastes away, no longer visible;
        the bones, once hidden, protrude.
²² A life approaches the pit;
    its very being draws near the death dealers.