Job 33:18-24

18He keeps their souls from the pit and their lives from crossing the River ⌞of Death⌟.

19In pain on their sickbeds, they are disciplined with endless aching in their bones

20so that their whole being hates food and they lose their appetite for a delicious meal.

21Their flesh becomes so thin that it can’t be seen. Their bones, not seen before, will be exposed.

22Their souls approach the pit. Their lives come close to those already dead.

23“If they have a messenger for them, a spokesman, one in a thousand, to tell people what is right for them,

24then he will have pity on them and say, ‘Free them from going into the pit. I have found a ransom.’