Job 33:18
He spares also his soul from death, 1 And suffers him not to fall in war. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
In Context
17To turn a man from unrighteousness, 1 And he delivers his body from a fall. 1
19And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, 1 And the multitude of his bones is benumbed. 1
Cross References
Job 15:22Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, 1 For he has been already made over to the power of the sword. 1
Job 33:24He will support him, that he should not perish, 1 And will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; 1 And he will fill his bones with marrow. 1
Job 33:30And he has delivered my soul from death, 1 That my life may praise him in the light. 1
Joel 2:8and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in nowise be destroyed.
Matthew Henry on Job 33:15-19
14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; 16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, 17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. 18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. Job had complained that God kept him wholly in the dark concerning the meaning of his dealings with him, and therefore concluded… Read the whole commentary →