Elihu Rebukes Job
Job 33:28
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
- KJV
- He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.He…: or, He hath delivered my soul, etc, and my life
- WEB
- He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
- ASV
- He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.
- LSV
- He has ransomed my soul || From going over into the pit, || And my life looks on the light.
- YLT
- He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'
- DBY
- He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.
- DRC
- He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.
- GNV
- He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- JPS
- So He redeemeth his soul from going into the pit, and his life beholdeth the light.
- LXXE
- Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.
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- Written (Ketiv): נַפְשִׁי (“self my”). Read aloud (Qere): נַ֭פְשׁוֹ (“self his”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
- Written (Ketiv): וְחַיָּתִי (“and life my”). Read aloud (Qere): וְ֝חַיָּתוֹ (“and life his”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads נַ֭פְשֹׁי; read aloud (Qere) reads נַ֭פְשׁוֹ (“self his”).
- Leningrad Codex reads וְ֝חַיָּתֹי; read aloud (Qere) reads וְ֝חַיָּתוֹ (“and life his”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- פָּדָ֣ה נפשי מֵעֲבֹ֣ר בַּשָּׁ֑חַת וחיתי בָּא֥וֹר תִּרְאֶֽה׃Read aloud as (qere): נַ֭פְשׁוֹRead aloud as (qere): וְ֝חַיָּתוֹ
- LXX-Br
- Σῶσον ψυχήν μου τοῦ μὴ ἐλθεῖν εἰς διαφθορὰν, καὶ ἡ ζωή μου φῶς ὄψεται.
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
ElihuElihu (2)PhilosophyAgencyPenitentConfession of SinConvictionAfflictionAnger of God, TheRepentance
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 33:24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
- Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- Job 33:22He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
- Job 3:9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
- Psalms 69:15Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
- Isaiah 38:17–18Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those…
- Job 22:28Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
- Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
- John 11:9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
- Isaiah 9:2The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
- Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 33:18to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
- Revelation 20:1–3Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. And…
- Job 33:20so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
- Psalms 49:19he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
- Job 17:16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
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