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Job 33:18
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God spares his soul from the Pit,his life from crossing the river of death.
He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
God does this to save people from death, to keep them from dying.
He spares a person's life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.
He holds back his soul from the pit [of destruction], And his life from passing over into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).
He keeps his soul back from the pit, And his life from perishing by the spear.
He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
And keepe backe his soule from the pit, & that his life should not passe by the sword.
He holds back his soul from the pit,And his life from passing over to death by a weapon.
to preserve his soul from the Pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
and to protect us from being swept away to the world of the dead.
so that he will keep himself away from the pit and from perishing by the sword.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the sword.
He does this to save them from death. He wants to keep them from being destroyed.
He spares his soul from corruption, and his life from perdition.
He will not let them be destroyed; he saves them from death itself.
He spares his life from the pit and his life from passing over the river of death.
He holds back his soul from the Pit, and his life from passing by the sword.
kepeth his soule from destruccion, & his life from ye swearde.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
That He may keep back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Hee keepeth backe his soule from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
And kepe his soule from the graue, and his life from the sworde.
He spares also his soul from death, and suffers him not to fall in war.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
and his lijf, that it go not in to swerd.
He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
He keeps back his soul from the Pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death.
He keeps his soul from going to the place of the dead. And He keeps his life from being destroyed by the sword.
to spare their souls from the Pit, their lives from traversing the River.
He keepeth back his said from the pit, and his life from passing away by a weapon.
Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.
he keeps back his soul from the Pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.
He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from passing over into Sheol.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
keepeth: Acts 16:27-33, Romans 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9, 2 Peter 3:15
perishing: Heb. passing
Reciprocal: Job 17:16 - the bars of the pit Job 33:24 - Then Job 33:28 - will deliver Job 36:8 - if Psalms 86:13 - and thou Ezekiel 28:8 - shall bring Joel 2:8 - sword Acts 9:11 - for 1 Corinthians 11:32 - we are
Cross-References
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.
And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same.
Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,
All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number.
Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.
Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,
Now John was then giving baptism at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were given baptism.
So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He keepeth back his soul from the pit,.... Or, "that he may keep back" n; for this is another end and use of God's speaking unto men; it is to preserve them for the present from going down to the grave, the pit of corruption and destruction; so called because the bodies of men, being there laid, corrupt, and are entirely destroyed by worms, and turn to rottenness and dust; and to preserve them from the bottomless pit of everlasting ruin and destruction; for the Lord's people are reproved by him, that they may not be condemned with the world, 1 Corinthians 11:32;
and his life from perishing by the sword; by the sword of men, which is one of God's sore judgments; or by the sword of the civil magistrate, the man spoken to being warned of God of committing these sins, which would bring him into the hands of such; or by the sword of divine justice; Jarchi interprets it of the sword of the angel of death; the word signifies a missive weapon, as a dart; so Mr. Broughton renders the words, "and his life from going on the dart": or, as another version has it, "lest it should go on under the cast of darts" o; the darts of an enemy in war, or the fiery darts of Satan, Ephesians 6:16.
n יחשך "ut prohibeat", Mercerus, Piscator. o Tigurine version.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He keepeth back his soul from the pit - The word soul in the Hebrew is often equivalent to self, and the idea is, that he keeps the man from the pit in this manner. The object of these warnings is to keep him from rushing on to his own destruction. The word rendered “pit” - שׁחת shachath, properly means a pit, or pitfall, in which traps are laid for wild animals; Psalms 7:15; Psalms 9:15; then a cistern that is miry; Job 9:31; a prison, Isaiah 51:14; then the grave, or sepulchre, as being often a cavern; Job 17:13; Psalms 30:9; see Job 33:28, Job 33:30. It evidently means here the grave, and the sense is, that God thus warns people against pursuing a course of conduct which would lead them to destruction, or would speedily terminate their lives.
And his life from perishing by the sword - Margin, “passing by.” The meaning of the Hebrew may be, “to keep his life from passing away by the sword;” as if the sword were the means by which the life or soul passed from the body. The word rendered sword here - שׁלח shelach is from שׁלח shâlach - to send, cast, hurl, and the reference is rather to something sent, as of an arrow, dart, javelin, than to a sword. The sense is not materially varied, and the idea referred to is that of a violent death. The meaning is, that God by these warnings would keep a man from such a course of life as would lead to a death by violence - either by punishment for his crime, or by being cut off in war.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 33:18. He keepeth back his soul from the pit — By the above means, how many have been snatched from an untimely death! By taking the warning thus given, some have been prevented from perishing by the pit - some sudden accident; and others from the sword of the assassin or nocturnal murderer. It would be easy to give examples, in all these kinds; but the knowledge of the reader may save this trouble to the commentator.
