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20 so that their whole being hates food
    and 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.

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20 so that their body finds food(A) repulsive
    and their soul loathes the choicest meal.(B)
21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,(C) once hidden, now stick out.(D)
22 They draw near to the pit,(E)
    and their life to the messengers of death.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:22 Or to the place of the dead