Job 33:17-19

The Voice

¹⁷    So that He can turn one away from his evil deeds
        and put down the arrogance of the proud.
¹⁸    He does all of this so that He might hold back one soul from the pit
        and protect one life from passing over to the land of death.^[a]

¹⁹    Or another kind of answer God gives comes thus:
        one may be corrected through a bed of pain;
        his bones may hold him in an unceasing trial,

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