Job 33:8-27

Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very   words: “I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.  But he finds reasons to oppose me; he regards me as his enemy.  He puts my feet in the stocks; he stands watch  over all my paths.” But I tell you that you are wrong in this matter, since God is greater than man.  Why do you take   him to court for not answering anything a person asks?  For God speaks time and again, but a person may not notice it. In a dream, a vision  in the night, when deep sleep comes over people  as they slumber on their beds, he uncovers their ears  and terrifies them  with warnings, in order to turn a person from his actions and suppress the pride of a person. God spares his soul from the Pit,  his life from crossing the river of death.  A person may be disciplined on his bed  with pain and constant distress in his bones,  so that he detests bread, and his soul despises his favorite food.  His flesh wastes away to nothing,  and his unseen bones stick out. He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the executioners. If there is an angel  on his side, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what is right for him  and to be gracious to him and say, “Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom,”  then his flesh will be healthier  than in his youth, and he will return to the days of his youthful vigor.  He will pray to God, and God will delight in him. That person will see his face  with a shout of joy, and God will restore his righteousness to him.  He will look at men and say, “I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.