Job 33:28
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
In Context
29Lo, all these things God works twice, [yea] thrice, with a man,
Cross References
Job 3:16Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
Job 17:16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.
Job 33:18He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Job 33:22Yea, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
Psalms 49:19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
Psalms 69:15Let not the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep shallow me up. And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
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 →