Job 33:24

A Third Way God Warns People

²³ If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness; ²⁴ Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;
²⁵ his flesh shall become more tender than a child's; and he shall return to the days of his youth.

Go Down to the Pit

Going Down to the Pit

Be Gracious

Job

Job 33:18

Thus he keeps back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

Exodus 33:19

And he replied, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name that I AM before thee; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and will show clemency on whom I will show clemency.

Exodus 34:6-7

And as the LORD passed by before him, he proclaimed, I AM, I AM strong, merciful, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth,

Job 22:21

Make up thy friendship now with him, and thou shalt have peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.

Job 36:10-11

He opens their ear to instruction and commands that they turn from iniquity.

Job 36:18

Therefore it is to be feared that he take thee away with a stroke, which cannot be avoided even with a great ransom.

Psalm 22:4

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Psalm 30:9-12

What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?

Psalm 40:2

He brought me up also out of the pit of hopelessness, out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock and straightened my steps.

Psalm 49:7-8

none of them can by any means ransom his brother, nor give God an atonement for him;

Psalm 71:3

Be thou my strong habitation unto which I may continually resort; thou hast given a commandment that I should be saved because thou art my rock and my fortress.

Psalm 86:5

For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all those that call upon thee.

Psalm 86:13

For great is thy mercy upon me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest part of Sheol.

Psalm 86:15

But thou, O Lord, art a merciful and gracious God, longsuffering and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but it has pleased thee to deliver my life from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Jeremiah 31:20

Peradventure is Ephraim a precious son unto me? Peradventure is he unto me a delightful child? With all this since I spoke of him, I have remembered him constantly. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him; in tenderness I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and be converted unto the LORD; say unto him, Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, so will we render the calves of our lips.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their rebellion; I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like unto thee that pardons iniquity, and passes over the rebellion with the remnant of his heritage? He did not retain his anger for ever because he delights in mercy.

Zechariah 9:11

As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have taken thy prisoners out of the pit in which there is no water.

Matthew 20:28

even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many.

Romans 3:24-26

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus, the Christ,

Romans 5:20-21

Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself in ransom for all, the testimony of which was confirmed at the time,

1 Peter 1:18-19

knowing that ye have been ransomed from your vain conversation (which you received from your fathers), not with corruptible things like silver and gold,