Job 33:14-22

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁴ “God speaks in one way,
even in two ways without people noticing it:
¹⁵ In a dream, a prophetic vision at night,
when people fall into a deep sleep,
when they sleep on their beds,
¹⁶ he opens people’s ears
and terrifies them with warnings.
¹⁷ ⌞He warns them⌟ to turn away from doing ⌞wrong⌟
and to stop being arrogant.^[a]
18 He keeps their souls from the pit
and their lives from crossing the River ⌞of Death⌟.
¹⁹ In pain on their sickbeds, they are disciplined
with endless aching in their bones
²⁰ so that their whole being hates food
and they lose their appetite for a delicious meal.
²¹ Their flesh becomes so thin that it can’t be seen.
Their bones, not seen before, will be exposed.
²² Their souls approach the pit.
Their lives come close to those already dead.