Job 33:24

A Third Way God Warns People

²³ If there be with him a [heavenly] agent, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him, ²⁴ then [God] is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom. ²⁵ His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the days of his youth.

Go Down to the Pit

Going Down to the Pit

Be Gracious

Job

Job 33:18

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Exodus 33:19

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of LORD before thee. {I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate (LXX/NT)}.

Exodus 34:6-7

And LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, LORD, LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

Job 22:21

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace. By this good shall come to thee.

Job 36:10-11

He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:18

and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.

Psalm 22:4

Our fathers trusted in thee. They trusted, and thou delivered 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 also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Psalm 49:7-8

none can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him

Psalm 71:3

Be thou to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually resort. Thou have given commandment to save me, for thou are my rock and my fortress.

Psalm 86:5

For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.

Psalm 86:13

For great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Psalm 86:15

But thou, O LORD, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says LORD.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and return to LORD. Say to him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good. So we will render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. For my anger is turned away from him.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Zechariah 9:11

As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Matthew 20:28

Just as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Romans 3:24-26

being made righteous freely by his grace, through the redemption in Christ Jesus,

Romans 5:20-21

And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony for their own times.

1 Peter 1:18-19

Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,