Job 33:22

In 11 translations

BSB

He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

KJV

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

WEB

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

ASV

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

LSV

And his soul draws near to the pit, || And his life to those causing death.

YLT

And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.

DBY

And his soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

DRC

His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.

GNV

So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life to the buriers.

JPS

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

LXXE

His soul also draws nigh to death, and his life is in Hades.

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WLC

וַתִּקְרַ֣ב לַשַּׁ֣חַת נַפְשׁ֑וֹ וְ֝חַיָּת֗וֹ לַֽמְמִתִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Ἤγγισε δὲ εἰς θάνατον ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ, ἡ δὲ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ ἐν ᾅδῃ·

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• 2 Samuel 24:16But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the…
• Job 33:28He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
• Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Psalms 17:4As for the deeds of men— by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
• Psalms 30:3O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
• Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
• Job 15:21Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
• 1 Samuel 2:6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
• Revelation 9:11They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.
• Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
• Psalms 88:3–5For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave,…
• Job 17:13–16If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? Will it…
• Job 17:1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
• Exodus 12:23When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike…
• 1 Corinthians 10:10And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

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