12. “Look, in this you are not right—I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.
13. Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person’s words?
14. Indeed, God speaks in one way, even in two, yet someone does not perceive it.
15. “In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed,
16. then he opens the ear of men, and he frightens them with a warning
17. to turn human beings aside from their deeds, and he keeps man from pride.
18. He spares his life from the pit and his life from passing over the river of death.
19. “And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even with the strife of his bones continually,
20. so that his life loathes bread, and his inner self loathes appetizing food.