Job 33:20-30

20 so that their lives loathe bread, and their appetites dainty food.
21 Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen; and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.
22 Their souls draw near the Pit, and their lives to those who bring death.
23 Then, if there should be for one of them an angel, a mediator, one of a thousand, one who declares a person upright,
24 and he is gracious to that person, and says, "Deliver him from going down into the Pit; I have found a ransom;
25 let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor';
26 then he prays to God, and is accepted by him, he comes into his presence with joy, and God repays him for his righteousness.
27 That person sings to others and says, "I sinned, and perverted what was right, and it was not paid back to me.
28 He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and my life shall see the light.'
29 "God indeed does all these things, twice, three times, with mortals,
30 to bring back their souls from the Pit, so that they may see the light of life.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Heb [he]
  • [b]. Syr: Heb [to be lighted with the light of life]
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