Job 33:22
He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.
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Referenced Verses
- 2 Sam 24:16 : 16 When the angel extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was killing the people,“That’s enough! Stop now!”(Now the LORD’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)
- Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
- Job 15:21 : 21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
- Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
- Job 17:13-16 : 13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 14 If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’ 15 where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it? 16 Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
- Job 33:28 : 28 He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’
- Ps 17:4 : 4 As for the actions of people– just as you have commanded, I have not followed in the footsteps of violent men.
- Ps 30:3 : 3 O LORD, you pulled me up from Sheol; you rescued me from among those descending into the grave.
- Ps 88:3-5 : 3 For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol. 4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man, 5 adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.
- Isa 38:10 : 10 “I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
- Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
- Rev 9:11 : 11 They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.
- Exod 12:23 : 23 For the LORD will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the LORD will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
- 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 The LORD both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.
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- Job 33:18-214 verses84%
18 He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.
19 Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,
20 so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
21 His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
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1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
- Job 21:32-332 verses76%
32 And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,
33 The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.
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22 His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”
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28 He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’
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24 The Contrast With the Past“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
- Job 18:12-143 verses74%
12 Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.
13 It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.
14 He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.
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3 For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.
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30 to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
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21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
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11 His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
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7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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10 “I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
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3 Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
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25 And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.
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9 Enemies seek to destroy my life, but they will descend into the depths of the earth.
- Job 15:28-303 verses72%
28 he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
29 He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.
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22 Accusation of God’s Justice“It is all one! That is why I say,‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’
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28 So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
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10 For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.
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12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
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4 Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.
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11 He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
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21 to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
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15 all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
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4 ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.
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20 They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
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22 But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.
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29 If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’
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15 so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
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20 Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.
21 For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?
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23 If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;
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5 Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)
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7 His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.
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7 he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’
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2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
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19 But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.
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16 Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.
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15 The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
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12 For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.
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8 They say,‘An awful disease overwhelms him, and now that he is bed-ridden he will never recover.’