Job 33:28 “He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see…”

Job 33:28

He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

World English Bible

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

American Standard Version

He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.

Geneva Bible 1599

He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Darby Translation

He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.

Young's Literal Translation

He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

Bible in Basic English

He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

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Cross references

“will deliver, etc”

Job 33:24 Job 33:18 Job 17:16 Psalm 55:23 Psalm 69:15 Revelation 20:1–3

Job 33:24 · BSB

to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’

Job 33:18 · BSB

to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

Job 17:16 · BSB

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

Psalm 55:23 · BSB

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalm 69:15 · BSB

Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

Revelation 20:1–3 · BSB

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.

“see”

Job 33:22 Job 3:9 Job 3:16 Job 33:20 Job 3:20 Psalm 49:19

Job 33:22 · BSB

He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

Job 3:9 · BSB

May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

Job 3:16 · BSB

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Job 33:20 · BSB

so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

Job 3:20 · BSB

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

Psalm 49:19 · BSB

he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

Also

Job 22:28

Job 22:28 · BSB

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

29Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

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