Job 33:14-22 - Two Ways God Warns People

¹⁴ God does speak, now one-way and then another, though man may not perceive it. ¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men as they slumber in their beds, ¹⁶ he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, ¹⁷ that turn man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride. ¹⁸ It is to preserve him from the pit and keep his life from perishing by the sword. ¹⁹ On the other hand a man may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in his bones. ²⁰ His very being finds food repulsive and he loathes the choicest meal. ²¹ His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his bones, once hidden, now stick out. ²² He draws near to the pit and to the messengers of death.