9. "I’m pure, without sin;I’m innocent, without offense.
10. Notice that he invents arguments against me;he considers me his enemy,
11. ties up my feet,watches all my paths."
12. Now you’re wrong about this; I’ll answer you,for God is greater than anybody.
13. Why do you contend with him,saying that he doesn’t answer all your words?
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 deedand 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 painwhile 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.