9. I am clean without rebellion, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
10. Behold, God sought occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,
11. he put my feet in the stocks, he guards all my paths.
12. Behold, in this thou art not just; I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
13. Why dost thou strive against him? For he will not answer all of thy words.
14. Nevertheless, in one or two manners God speaks to the one who does not see.
15. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
16. then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction,
17. that he may withdraw the man from his own work and cover the man from pride.
18. Thus he keeps back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
19. He is chastened also upon his bed with strong pain in all his bones,
20. so that his life abhors bread and his soul dainty food.
21. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
22. His soul shall draw near to the grave, and his life to those that would bury him.
23. If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness;
24. to tell him that God had mercy on him, that he delivered him from going down to the pit; that he found a ransom;
25. his flesh shall become more tender than a child’s; and he shall return to the days of his youth.