Holy Scripture
Job 33:19
A church father on this verse
“He chastens him also with pain upon his bed, and makes all his bones to waste away. By bed, or pallet, or couch in holy Scripture, is understood, sometimes carnal pleasure, sometimes a resting in good works, sometimes temporal rest; for what is meant by what our Lord said in the Gospel to a certain one who was healed,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
19And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, And the multitude of his bones is benumbed.
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17To turn a man from unrighteousness, And he delivers his body from a fall.
18He spares also his soul from death, And suffers him not to fall in war.
— Job 33:19 —
20And he shall not be able to take any food, Though his soul shall desire meat;
21Until his flesh shall be consumed, And he shall show his bones bare.