Job 33:16-18

Amplified Bible

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Then He opens the ears of men
And seals their instruction,
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That He may turn man aside from his conduct,
And keep him from pride;
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He holds back his soul from the pit [of destruction],
And his life from passing over into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).