Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed and with continual strife in his bones, shifting to a second mode of divine communication: physical suffering and affliction, suggesting that God uses pain as well as dreams to communicate with and redirect humans. The pain upon bed suggests the experience of illness in vulnerability. The strife in bones suggests the discomfort of physical disease. The verse establishes pain as a divine communication tool.

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