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16 God then opens their ears
    and issues warnings that strike them with terror,
17 so that he may turn man away from evil
    and check his pride.
18 In this way he spares his soul from the pit[a]
    and his life from a violent death.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:18 Pit: i.e., the grave (see also vv. 22, 24, 28, 30).