Job 33:14-22

New International Reader's Version

¹⁴ He speaks in one way and then another.
    But we do not even realize it.
¹⁵ He might speak in a dream or in a vision at night.
    That’s when people are sound asleep in their beds.
¹⁶ He might speak in their ears.
    His warnings might terrify them.
¹⁷ He warns them in order to turn them away from sinning.
    He wants to keep them from being proud.
¹⁸ He wants to stop them from going down into the grave.
    He doesn’t want them to be killed by swords.
¹⁹ Someone might be punished by suffering in bed.
    The pain in their bones might never go away.
²⁰ They might feel so bad they can’t eat anything.
    They might even hate the finest food.
²¹ Their body might waste away to nothing.
    Their bones might have been hidden.
    But now they stick out.
²² They might approach the very edge of the grave.
    The messengers of death might come for them.