to sever · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
soul
נַ֭פְשׁוֹnaf.shi
H5315
properly · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
going
מֵעֲבֹ֣רme.'a.Vor
H5674
to cross over · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
pit
בַּשָּׁ֑חַתba.Sha.chat
H7845
a pit (especially as a trap) · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
life
וְ֝חַיָּתוֹve.chai.ya.to
H2416
alive · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
see
תִּרְאֶֽהtir.'Eh
H7200
to see · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
light
בָּא֥וֹרba.'or
H216
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
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Cross-references
Job 33:24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Job 3:9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Job 3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Job 33:22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Job 3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Job 17:16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Job 33:18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
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Commentary
Matthew Henry on Job 33:19-28
God has spoken once to sinners by their own consciences, to keep them from the paths of the destroyer, but they perceive it not; they are not aware that the checks their own hearts give them in a sinful way are from God, but they are imputed to melancholy or the preciseness of their education; and therefore God speaks twice; he speaks a second time, and tries another way to convince and reclaim sinners, and that is by providences, afflictive and merciful (in which he speaks twice), and by the seasonable instructions of good ministers setting in with them. Job complained much of his diseases and judged by them that God was angry with him; his friends did so too: but Elihu shows that they were…
(See on Job 33:24); rather, as Hebrew text (English Version reads as the Margin, Hebrew, Keri, "his soul, his life"), "He hath delivered my soul . . . my life." Continuation of the penitent's testimony to the people.
light-- (Job 33:30; Job 3:16, Job 3:20; Psa 56:13; Ecc 11:7).
Adam Clarke on Job 33:28
He will deliver his soul - He will do that to every individual penitent sinner which he has promised in his word to do for a lost world - he will deliver his soul from going down to the pit of hell.
And his life shall see the light - He shall walk in the light, as Christ is in the light; always enjoying a clear sense of his acceptance through the blood of the Lamb. See another mode of paraphrasing these verses at the end of the chapter.
John Gill on Job 33:28
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit,.... Into the pit of the grave; and then the soul is put for the man or for the body; or into the pit of hell or perdition:
and his life shall see the light; or he shall live and enjoy outward prosperity here, and the light of eternal happiness hereafter; and so the Targum interprets it of superior light, or the light above, even the inheritance of the saints in light. These words have a double reading; the "Keri", or marginal reading, is what we follow; but the "Cetib", or textual reading, is, "he hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life sees the light"; and which seems to be the better reading; and so the words are a cont…
The Church Fathers
"Save my soul, that it may not fall into corruption," in the temptation that would kill it.
For he hath delivered his soul from going onwards to destruction. Because when Divine Grace goes before us in good works, our free will follows it, we, who yield our consent to God Who delivers us, are said to deliver ourselves; and hence Paul when saying, I laboured more abundantly than they all, [1 Cor. 15, 1] for fear he should seem to ascribe his labours to himself, immediately added, Yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. For since he had followed with his free will the preventing grace of God in him, he properly adds, with me, that he might neither be unthankful for the Divine gift, nor yet remain a stranger to the merit of free-will. But of him, who by gaining a knowledge of himself consented to Him Who set him free, he rightly says [al. 'it is rightly said.'], He hath delivered his soul from going onwards to destruction. It follows, But that it should live, and see the light. That is to say, the light of truth, which he could not see when dead in heart. Or certainly, because the Lord has said, I am the Light of the world, [John 8, 12] even the dead also shall behold the light, when all the ungodly shall have seen Him coming to judgment in the form of Manhood. But he lives, or beholds the light at that time, who has the eyes of his heart set free, and beholds Him in the form of the Godhead.
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Dictionary and topics
Agency · IN SALVATION OF MEN — IN SALVATION OF MEN
Anger Of God, The · Is averted upon confession of sin and repentance — Is averted upon confession of sin and repentance
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25 His flesh swelleth with the freshness of youth,
He returneth to the days of his youth.
26 If he prayeth to Eloah, He showeth him favour,
So that he seeth His face with joy,
And thus He recompenseth to man his uprightness.
27 He singeth to men and saith:
"I had sinned and perverted what was straight,
"And it was not recompensed to me.
28 "He hath delivered my soul from going down into the pit,
"And my life rejoiceth in the light."
Misled by the change of the perf. and fut. in Job 33:25, Jer. translates Job 33:25 : consumta est caro ejus a suppliciis; Targ.: His flesh had been weakened (אתחלישׁ), or made thin (אתקלישׁ), more than the flesh of a child; Raschi: it had become burst (French אשק…
God will receive him with joy: Cp. Num 6:24-26; Ps 67:1; Acts 2:28; Jude 1:24.
Rashi on Job 33:27
He makes a row of men He makes a row of men when he is saved from his illness and confesses [before them] to his Creator.
but I did not profit I had no profit in its matters.
