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21 Their body might waste away to nothing.
    Their bones might have been hidden.
    But now they stick out.
22 They might approach the very edge of the grave.
    The messengers of death might come for them.

23 “But suppose there is an angel who will speak up for him.
    The angel is very special. He’s one out of a thousand.
    He will tell that person how to do what 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