Job 33:24

A Third Way God Warns People

²³ "If there is beside him an angel, 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

He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. 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 by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

Job 22:21

"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

Job 36:10-11

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

Job 36:18

Do not let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Psalm 22:4

Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.

Psalm 30:9-12

"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Psalm 40:2

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Psalm 49:7-8

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

Psalm 71:3

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

Psalm 86:5

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Psalm 86:13

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Psalm 86:15

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your 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 on him," says the LORD.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you, and return to the LORD. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good, and we will offer the fruit of our lips

Hosea 14:4

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

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Zechariah 9:11

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

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

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

Romans 5:20-21

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

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

1 Peter 1:18-19

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,