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21     the flesh wastes away, no longer visible;
        the bones, once hidden, protrude.
22 A life approaches the pit;
    its very being draws near the death dealers.
23 Surely there’s a messenger for this person,
    a mediator, one out of a thousand
    to declare one’s integrity to another

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21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,(A) once hidden, now stick out.(B)
22 They draw near to the pit,(C)
    and their life to the messengers of death.[a](D)
23 Yet if there is an angel at their side,
    a messenger,(E) one out of a thousand,
    sent to tell them how to be upright,(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:22 Or to the place of the dead