Job 33:18

Overview - Job 33
1	Elihu offers himself instead of God to reason with Job.
8	He excuses God from giving man an account of his ways, by his greatness.
14	God calls man to repentance by visions, by afflictions, and by his ministry.
31	He incites Job to attention.

Job 33:18  (King James Version)
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.