14. For God does speak, once,even twice, though you do not see it:
15. In a dream, in a vision of the night,when deep sleep falls upon mortalsas they slumber in their beds.
16. It is then he opens their earsand with a warning, terrifies them,
17. By turning mortals from actingand keeping pride away from a man,
18. He holds his soul from the pit,his life from passing to the grave.
19. Or he is chastened on a bed of pain,suffering continually in his bones,
20. So that to his appetite food is repulsive,his throat rejects the choicest nourishment.
21. His flesh is wasted, it cannot be seen;bones, once invisible, appear;
22. His soul draws near to the pit,his life to the place of the dead.