Job 33:22
Yes, his soul draweth near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Webster Bible
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 that were not seen stick out.
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 to your houses to smite you.
2 Samuel 24:16And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thy hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite.
Job 15:21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Psalms 17:4Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to 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 →