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 Yahweh 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

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, 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

Don't 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 Yahweh.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

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,