Ayub 33:22

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

sampai nyawanya menghampiri liang kubur, dan hidupnya mendekati mereka yang membawa maut.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
sampai nyawanya menghampiri liang kubur, dan hidupnya mendekati mereka yang membawa maut.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka nyawanya hampir kepada kebinasaan dan jiwanya kepada mati yang tertentu.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ He chasteneth hym with sickenesse vpon his bedde, he layeth sore punishement vpon his bones: ²⁰ So that his lyfe may away with no bread, and his soule abhorreth to eate any dayntie meate: ²¹ In so much that his body is cleane consumed away, and his bones appeare which before were not seene. ²² His soule draweth vnto the graue, and his lyfe to death. ²³ Now yf there be a messenger, one among a thousande, sent for to speake vnto man, and to shew him the right way: ²⁴ Then the Lord is mercifull vnto him, and sayth, He shalbe deliuered, that he fall not downe to the graue: for I am sufficiently reconciled. ²⁵ Then shal his fleshe be as freshe as a childes, and shal returne as in the dayes of his youth. ²⁶ He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauorable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy, for he will render vnto man his righteousnesse. ²⁷ A respect hath he vnto men, let man then say, I haue offended, I did vnrighteously, & it hath done me no good: ²⁸ Yea he hath deliuered my soule from destruction, and my lyfe shall see the light.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his soul: Job 7:7, Job 17:1, Job 17:13-16, 1 Samuel 2:6, Psalms 30:3, Psalms 88:3-5, Isaiah 38:10

his life: Job 15:21, Exodus 12:23, 2 Samuel 24:16, Psalms 17:4, Acts 12:23, 1 Corinthians 10:10, Revelation 9:11

Reciprocal: Job 33:28 - see Psalms 86:13 - and thou

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave,.... Not the soul, strictly and properly speaking, for that does not, nor is it laid in the grave at death, but returns to God that gave it; rather the body, for which it is sometimes put, and of which what is here said is true, see Psalms 16:10; or the person of the sick man, whose disease being so threatening, all hope is gone, and he is given up by his physicians and friends, and seemingly is at the grave's mouth, and that is ready for him, and he on the brink of that; which were the apprehensions Job had of himself, Job 17:1; see Psalms 88:3;

and his life to the destroyers; the destroying angels, as Aben Ezra, and so the Septuagint version: or destroying diseases, and so Mr. Broughton renders it, "to killing maladies"; or it may be to worms, which destroy the body in the grave, and which Job was sensible of would quickly be his case, Job 19:26; though some interpret it of those that kill, or of those that are dead, with whom they are laid that die; or of deaths corporeal and eternal, and the horrors and terrors of both, with which persons in such circumstances are sometimes distressed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave - That is, he himself does, for the word soul is often used to denote self.

And his life to the destroyers - - לממתים lammitiym. literally, “to those causing death.” The interpretation commonly given of this is, “the angels of death” who were supposed to come to close human life; compare 2 Samuel 24:16-17. But it probably refers to diseases and pangs as having power to terminate life, and being the cause of the close of life. The meaning is, that the afflicted man comes very near to those acute sufferings which terminate life, and which by personification are here represented as the authors of death.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 33:22. His soul draweth near unto the grave — נפש nephesh, soul, is here taken for the immortal spirit, as it is distinguished from חיה chaiyah, the animal life. The former draws near to the pit, שחת shachath, corruption; perhaps he meant dissipation, considering it merely as the breath. The latter draws near לממתים lamemithim, to the dead; i.e., to those who are already buried. Mr. Good translates it the Destinies; and supposes the same is meant among the HEBREWS by the Memithim, as among the GREEKS by their Μοιραι; the LATINS, by their Parcae; the GOTHS, by their Fatal Sisters; the SCANDINAVIANS, by their goddess Hela; and the ARABIANS, by Azrael, or the angel of death. I think, however, the signification given above is more natural.