Job 33:14-22

New Century Version

¹⁴ God does speak—sometimes one way and sometimes another—
    even though people may not understand it.
¹⁵ He speaks in a dream or a vision of the night
    when people are in a deep sleep,
    lying on their beds.
¹⁶ He speaks in their ears
    and frightens them with warnings
¹⁷ to turn them away from doing wrong
    and to keep them from being proud.
¹⁸ God does this to save people from death,
    to keep them from dying.
¹⁹ People may be corrected while in bed in great pain;
    they may have continual pain in their very bones.
²⁰ They may be in such pain that they even hate food,
    even the very best meal.
²¹ Their body becomes so thin there is almost nothing left of it,
    and their bones that were hidden now stick out.
²² They are near death,
    and their life is almost over.