6I am just like you before God;
I was also formed from clay.
7Surely no fear of me should terrify you;
nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
8Surely you have spoken in my hearing,
and I have heard these very words:
9‘I am pure, without transgression;
I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
10Yet God finds occasions against me;
He counts me as His enemy.
11He puts my feet in the stocks;
He watches over all my paths.’
12Behold, you are not right in this matter.
I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
13Why do you complain to Him
that He answers nothing a man asks?
14For God speaks in one way and in another,
yet no one notices.
15In a dream,
in a vision in the night,
when deep sleep falls upon men
as they slumber on their beds,
16He opens their ears
and terrifies them with warnings
17to turn a man from wrongdoing
and keep him from pride,
18to preserve his soul from the Pit
and his life from perishing by the sword.
— Job 33:6-18

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Illustration of Job 33:14-18 NLT -- For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it. He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds. He whispers in their ears and terrifies them with warnings. He makes them turn from doing wrong; he keeps them from pride. He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death.