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21 Their bodies become very thin.
    People can even see their bones.
22 They will soon die and go to their graves.
    Death is waiting to take them away.

23 But perhaps an angel may come
    to help one of those people.
He may speak on behalf of God,
    as a special angel among the many thousands of God's angels.
The angel may tell that person
    how to live in a way that is right.

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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