16. Then he gives a revelation to people,and terrifies them with warnings,
17. to turn a person from his sin,and to cover a person’s pride.
18. He spares a person’s life from corruption,his very life from crossing over the river.
19. Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed,and with the continual strife of his bones,
20. so that his life loathes food,and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
21. His flesh wastes away from sight,and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
22. He draws near to the place of corruption,and his life to the messengers of death.
23. If there is an angel beside him,one mediator out of a thousand,to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;
24. and if God is gracious to him and says,‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption,I have found a ransom for him,’
25. then his flesh is restored like a youth’s;he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.