Job 33:18-24

18 to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.[a]
19 “Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in their bones,
20 so that their body finds food repulsive and their soul loathes the choicest meal.
21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.
22 They draw near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.[b]
23 Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright,
24 and he is gracious to that person and says to God, ‘Spare them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for them—

Cross References 15

  • 1. ver 22,24,28,30; Psalms 28:1; Psalms 30:9; Psalms 69:15; Psalms 88:6; Psalms 103:4; Proverbs 1:12; Isaiah 14:15; Isaiah 38:17; John 2:6; Zechariah 9:11
  • 2. S Job 15:22; Matthew 26:52
  • 3. S Job 5:17
  • 4. S Genesis 17:1; S Deuteronomy 8:5; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; James 1:3
  • 5. S Job 16:16; Psalms 6:2; Psalms 38:3; Isaiah 38:13; Job 30:17
  • 6. Psalms 102:4; Psalms 107:18
  • 7. S Job 3:24; S Job 6:6
  • 8. S Job 2:5
  • 9. S Job 16:8; Job 19:20
  • 10. S ver 18
  • 11. Job 38:17; Psalms 9:13; Psalms 88:3; Psalms 107:18; Psalms 116:3
  • 12. Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 8:6; Hebrews 9:15
  • 13. Job 36:9-10; Micah 6:8
  • 14. S ver 18; Isaiah 38:17
  • 15. S Job 6:22

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or "from crossing the river"
  • [b]. Or "to the place of the dead"
Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.