Job 33 Footnotes

33:18 Some scholars suggest that this is a mythological allusion to passing through a river into the underworld, where all the departed enter. But this is erroneous. The Scriptures reveal a difference between the state of the saved and unsaved dead (Ps 49:10-15; Lk 16:22-23). The imagery here is a passing through “the river of death” into the grave (the “Pit”).