14 For God does speak(A)—now one way, now another(B)
    though no one perceives it.(C)
15 In a dream,(D) in a vision(E) of the night,(F)
    when deep sleep(G) falls on people
    as they slumber in their beds,
16 he may speak(H) in their ears
    and terrify them(I) with warnings,(J)
17 to turn them from wrongdoing
    and keep them from pride,(K)
18 to preserve them from the pit,(L)
    their lives from perishing by the sword.[a](M)

19 “Or someone may be chastened(N) on a bed of pain(O)
    with constant distress in their bones,(P)
20 so that their body finds food(Q) repulsive
    and their soul loathes the choicest meal.(R)
21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,(S) once hidden, now stick out.(T)
22 They draw near to the pit,(U)
    and their life to the messengers of death.[b](V)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:18 Or from crossing the river
  2. Job 33:22 Or to the place of the dead

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.

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