Job 33:24

A Third Way God Warns People

²³ If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him, ²⁴ Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;
²⁵ let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor';

Go Down to the Pit

Going Down to the Pit

Be Gracious

Job

Job 33:18

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

Exodus 33:19

And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The LORD.' 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

The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Job 22:21

"Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

Job 36:10-11

He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:18

Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

Psalm 22:4

In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.

Psalm 30:9-12

"What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

Psalm 40:2

He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

Psalm 49:7-8

Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,

Psalm 71:3

Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

Psalm 86:5

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

Psalm 86:13

For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, "Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

Zechariah 9:11

As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

Matthew 20:28

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

Romans 3:24-26

and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Romans 5:20-21

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

1 Peter 1:18-19

knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,