Job 33:24

A Third Way God Warns People

²³ If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is right for him; ²⁴ Then God is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom. ²⁵ His flesh shall be fresher than a child's; He returneth to the days of his youth.

Go Down to the Pit

Going Down to the Pit

Be Gracious

Job

Job 33:18

He keepeth 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 Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Exodus 34:6-7

And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,

Job 22:21

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.

Job 36:10-11

He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:18

For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

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 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 of them 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, whereunto I may continually resort: Thou hast given commandment to save me; For thou art my rock and my fortress.

Psalm 86:5

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.

Psalm 86:13

For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Psalm 86:15

But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast 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 yearneth for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render as bullocks the offering of our lips.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness.

Zechariah 9:11

As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein 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 Christ Jesus:

Romans 5:20-21

And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony to be borne in its own times;

1 Peter 1:18-19

knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;