11. He puts my feet in the stocksand watches my every move.’
12. “But you are wrong, and I will show you why.For God is greater than any human being.
13. So why are you bringing a charge against him?Why say he does not respond to people’s complaints?
14. For God speaks again and again,though people do not recognize it.
15. He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night,when deep sleep falls on peopleas they lie in their beds.
16. He whispers in their earsand terrifies them with warnings.
17. He makes them turn from doing wrong;he keeps them from pride.
18. He protects them from the grave,from crossing over the river of death.
19. “Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds,with ceaseless aching in their bones.
20. They lose their appetitefor even the most delicious food.
21. Their flesh wastes away,and their bones stick out.
22. They are at death’s door;the angels of death wait for them.
23. “But if an angel from heaven appears—a special messenger to intercede for a personand declare that he is upright—