Job 33:29
Behold, God works all these, || Twice, [even] three times with man,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
In Context
28He has ransomed my soul || From going over into the pit, || And my life looks on the light.
30To bring back his soul from the pit, || To be enlightened with the light of the living.
Cross References
2 Kings 6:10and the king of Israel sends to the place of which the man of God spoke to him, and warned him, and he is preserved there not [just] once and not [just] twice.
Job 40:5I have spoken once, and I do not answer, || And twice, and I do not add.”
2 Corinthians 5:5And He who worked us to this very thing [is] God, who also gave to us the deposit of the Spirit;
Ephesians 1:11in whom also we obtained an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who is working all things according to the counsel of His will,
Colossians 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to His working that is working in me in power.
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 →