the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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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.
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.
To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.
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
and he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel. She was also the sister of Laban, the Aramean from northern Syria. Almost twenty years later,
Go at once to your mother's father Bethuel in northern Syria and choose a wife from one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
Then the two servant women and their children came and bowed down to Esau.
Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down; finally, Joseph and Rachel also came and bowed down.
After Jacob came back to the land of Canaan, God appeared to him again. This time he gave Jacob a new name and blessed him by saying: I am God All-Powerful, and from now on your name will be Israel instead of Jacob. You will have many children. Your descendants will become nations, and some of the men in your family will even be kings.
Joshua called the tribes of Israel together for a meeting at Shechem. He had the leaders, including the old men, the judges, and the officials, come up and stand near the sacred tent.
Abimelech the son of Gideon went to Shechem. While there, he met with his mother's relatives
John had not yet been put in jail. He was at Aenon near Salim, where there was a lot of water, and people were coming there for John to baptize them.
and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph.
Later their bodies were taken back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor.
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.
