Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And he will compassionate him and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I found an expiation.

New American Standard Bible

Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;

King James Version

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

Holman Bible

and to be gracious to him and say,
“Spare him from going down to the Pit;
I have found a ransom,”

International Standard Version

to show favor to him and to plead, "Deliver him from having to go down to the Pit I know where his ransom is!'

A Conservative Version

then [God] is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.

American Standard Version

Then God is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.

Amplified


Then the angel is gracious to him, and says,
‘Spare him from going down to the pit [of destruction];
I have found a ransom [a consideration, or reason for redemption, an atonement]!’

Bible in Basic English

And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:

Darby Translation

Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

King James 2000

Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{so that} he is gracious [to] him, and he says, 'Deliver him from descending into [the] pit; I have found a ransom.'

Modern King James verseion

then He is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down to the Pit; for I have found a ransom.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

then the LORD is merciful unto him, and sayeth, 'He shall be delivered, that he fall not down to destruction, for I am sufficiently reconciled.'

NET Bible

and if God is gracious to him and says, 'Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,'

New Heart English Bible

then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'

The Emphasized Bible

Then hath he shewed him favour, and said, Set him free from going down to the pit, I have found a price of redemption!

Webster

Then he is gracious to him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

World English Bible

then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'

Youngs Literal Translation

Then He doth favour him and saith, 'Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּדע 
Pada` 
Usage: 1

to the pit
שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 23

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

References

Hastings

Job

Morish

Context Readings

A Third Way God Warns People

23 If there is a messenger upon him, an interpreter, one from a thousand, to announce to man his uprightness: 24 And he will compassionate him and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I found an expiation. 25 His flesh revived above a youth: he shall turn back to the days of his childhood.



Cross References

Job 33:18

He will keep back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the spear.

Exodus 33:19

And he will say, I will cause all my good to pass by before thee, and I called upon the name of Jehovah before thee; and I compassionated whom I will compassionate, and I pitied whom I will pity.

Exodus 34:6-7

And Jehovah will pass by before him, and Jehovah will call, Jehovah God merciful and compassionate, deferring anger, and much in kindness and truth,

Job 22:21

Be acquainted now with him, and be safe: by them shall good come to thee.

Job 36:10-11

And he will uncover their ear for instruction, and he will say that they shall turn back from iniquity.

Job 36:18

Because of wrath, lest he shall remove thee with smiting, and a multitude of covering shall not turn thee away.

Psalm 22:4

In thee our fathers trusted: they trusted, and thou wilt deliver them.

Psalm 30:9-12

What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth?

Psalm 40:2

And he will bring me up from the pit of destruction, from the clay of mire, and he will set my feet upon a rock, preparing my goings.

Psalm 49:7-8

A man redeeming shall not redeem the brother, he shall not give to God his ransom:

Psalm 71:3

Be thou to me for a rock of refuge to come always: thou didst command to save me, for thou my rock and my fortress.

Psalm 86:5

For thou, O Jehovah, art good and forgiving, and great of mercy to all calling to thee.

Psalm 86:13

For thy mercy is great upon me, and thou didst deliver my soul from hades below.

Psalm 86:15

And thou, O Jehovah, art a God compassionate and merciful, and slow to anger and great of mercy and truth.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Behold, for peace bitterness, to me bitterness: and thou didst cleave to my soul from the pit of destruction: and thou didst cast all my sin behind my back

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim a precious son to me? if a child of delights? for whenever my speaking against him, remembering, I shall remember him yet; for this the bowels were put in motion to me compassionating, I will compassionate him, says Jehovah.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words and turn back to Jehovah: say to him, Thou wilt take away all iniquity, and take good: and we will requite the fruits of our lips.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their turning away, I loved them largely: for mine anger turned away from him.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy.

Zechariah 9:11

Also thou by the blood of thy covenant I sent forth thy bound ones from the pit no water in it

Matthew 20:28

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

Romans 3:24-26

Being justified as a gift by his grace by the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:

Romans 5:20-21

And the law entered, that the fall might abound. And where sin abounded, grace superabounded:

1 Timothy 2:6

Having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in his own time.

1 Peter 1:18-19

Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers

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