Job 33:24

A Third Way God Warns People

²³ Yet if there is an angel on his side as a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a 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 His flesh is renewed like a child's. It is restored as in the days of his youth.

Go Down to the Pit

Going Down to the Pit

Be Gracious

Job

Job 33:18

It is to preserve him from the pit and keep his life from perishing by the sword.

Exodus 33:19

Jehovah said: I will make all my goodness pass in front of you. I will call out my name, JEHOVAH. I will be kind to anyone I want to. I will be merciful to anyone I want to.

Exodus 34:6-7

Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.

Job 22:21

Agree with God, and be at peace. In this way good will come to you.

Job 36:10-11

He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil.

Job 36:18

Be careful that no one entices you by riches. Do not let a large bribe turn you aside.

Psalm 22:4

Our ancestors trusted you. They trusted, and you delivered them.

Psalm 30:9-12

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

Psalm 40:2

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud and clay. He set my feet upon a rock and made me stand erect.

Psalm 49:7-8

No one can ever redeem (buy back) his brother or pay God a ransom for his life.

Psalm 71:3

You are my secure shelter and a strong fortress to protect me. You are my refuge and defense.

Psalm 86:5

You, O Jehovah, are good and forgiving, full of loving kindness toward everyone who calls out to you.

Psalm 86:13

Your loving kindness toward me is great. You have rescued me from the depths of the grave.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Jehovah, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back.

Jeremiah 31:20

Ephraim, O Ephraim my dear delightful son! Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him. My heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him, declares Jehovah.

Hosea 14:2

Return to Jehovah and say to him: 'Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit (young bulls) of our lips.' (Hebrews 13:15)

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their apostasy! I will love them freely for my anger has turned away from them.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).

Zechariah 9:11

I set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. This is because of the blood of your covenant!

Matthew 20:28

The Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom in payment for many.

Romans 3:24-26

being justified freely by his grace (as a gift) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:20-21

The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.

1 Timothy 2:6

He gave himself as a ransom for all. A witness was to be given at the right time.

1 Peter 1:18-19

Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,