Job 33:24

Then He favors him and says, || Ransom him from going down to the pit, || I have found an atonement.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

In Context

23If there is a messenger by him, || An interpreter—one of a thousand, || To declare for man his uprightness,

25Fresher [is] his flesh than a child’s, || He returns to the days of his youth.

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Cross References

Exodus 33:19and He says, “I cause all My goodness to pass before your face, and have called concerning the Name of YHWH before you, and favored him whom I favor, and loved him whom I love.”

Job 22:21Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace, || Thereby your increase [is] good.

Job 36:10And He uncovers their ear for instruction, || And commands that they turn back from iniquity.

Psalms 22:4In You our fathers trusted; They trusted, and You deliver them.

Psalms 40:2And He causes me to come up || From a pit of desolation—from mire of mud, || And He raises up my feet on a rock, || He is establishing my steps.

Psalms 71:3Be a rock to me—a habitation, || To go in continually, || You have given command to save me, || For You [are] my rock and my bulwark.

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 →

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