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—
24. he will be gracious and say,‘Rescue him from the grave,for I have found a ransom for his life.’
25. Then his body will become as healthy as a child’s,firm and youthful again.
26. When he prays to God,he will be accepted.And God will receive him with joyand restore him to good standing.
27. He will declare to his friends,‘I sinned and twisted the truth,but it was not worth it.
28. God rescued me from the grave,and now my life is filled with light.’