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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.

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20 so that their body finds food(A) repulsive
    and their soul loathes the choicest meal.(B)
21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,(C) once hidden, now stick out.(D)
22 They draw near to the pit,(E)
    and their life to the messengers of death.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:22 Or to the place of the dead