Job 33:22
Yea, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
In Context
21His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen stick out.
Cross References
Exodus 12:23For LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.
2 Samuel 24:16And when the [heavenly] agent stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, LORD relented of the evil, and said to the agent who destroyed the people, It is enough. Now stay thy hand. And the agent of LORD was by the thres
Job 15:21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Psalms 17:4As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the ways of a violent man.
Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
Matthew Henry on Job 33:20-29
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness: 24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down… Read the whole commentary →