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23 If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness,

24 He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.

25 His flesh is consumed with punishment, let him return to the days of his youth.

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23 Yet if there is an angel at their side,
    a messenger,(A) one out of a thousand,
    sent to tell them how to be upright,(B)
24 and he is gracious to that person and says to God,
    ‘Spare them from going down to the pit;(C)
    I have found a ransom for them(D)
25 let their flesh be renewed(E) like a child’s;
    let them be restored as in the days of their youth’(F)

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