19 In pain on their sickbeds, they are disciplinedwith endless aching in their bones
20 so that their whole being hates foodand they lose their appetite for a delicious meal.
21 Their flesh becomes so thin that it can’t be seen.Their bones, not seen before, will be exposed.
22 Their souls approach the pit.Their lives come close to those already dead.
23 “If they have a messenger for them,a spokesman, one in a thousand,to tell people what is right for them,
24 then he will have pity on them and say,‘Free them from going into the pit.I have found a ransom.’
25 Then their flesh will become softer than a child’s.They will go back to the days of their youth.