Job 33:22
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 corrode to unsightliness.
Cross References
Exodus 12:23For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
2 Samuel 24:16And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented Him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people: 'It is enough; now stay thy hand.' And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Job 15:21A sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 17:13If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Psalms 17:4As for the doings of men, by the word of Thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.
Psalms 88:3(88-4) For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
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 →