Job 33:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and if God is gracious to him and says,‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:7-8 : 7 Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price 8 (the ransom price for a human life is too high, and people go to their final destiny),
  • Job 33:18 : 18 He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.
  • Job 36:10-11 : 10 And he reveals this for correction, and says that they must turn from evil. 11 If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.
  • Job 36:18 : 18 Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.
  • Ps 22:4 : 4 In you our ancestors trusted; they trusted in you and you rescued them.
  • Ps 30:9-9 : 9 “What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty? 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me! O LORD, deliver me!” 11 Then you turned my lament into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy. 12 So now my heart will sing to you and not be silent; O LORD my God, I will always give thanks to you.
  • Ps 40:2 : 2 He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.
  • Exod 33:19 : 19 And the LORD said,“I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will proclaim the LORD by name before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.”
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 The LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:“The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, 7 keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
  • Job 22:21 : 21 “Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.
  • Ps 71:3 : 3 Be my protector and refuge, a stronghold where I can be safe! For you are my high ridge and my stronghold.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.
  • Isa 38:17-19 : 17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the Pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight. 18 Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness. 19 The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children. They are the children I take delight in. For even though I must often rebuke them, I still remember them with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them and will surely have compassion on them. I, the LORD, affirm it!
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 Return to the LORD and repent! Say to him:“Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 Divine Promise to Relent from Judgment and to Restore Blessings“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.
  • Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love? 19 Who will once again have mercy on us? Who will conquer our evil deeds? Who will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea? 20 You will be loyal to Jacob and extend your loyal love to Abraham, which you promised on oath to our ancestors in ancient times.
  • Zech 9:11 : 11 Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Rom 3:24-26 : 24 But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 25 God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed. 26 This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God’s purpose at his appointed time.
  • 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold, 19 but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

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  • Job 33:25-30
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    25then his flesh is restored like a youth’s; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.

    26He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.

    27That person sings to others, saying:‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

    28He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

    29Elihu’s Appeal to Job“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,

    30to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

  • Job 33:22-23
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    22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

    23If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;

  • Job 33:18
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    18He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

  • Job 36:18
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    18Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.

  • Job 23:7
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    7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Hos 13:14
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    14The Lord Will Not Relent from the Threatened Judgment Will I deliver them from the power of Sheol? No, I will not! Will I redeem them from death? No, I will not! O Death, bring on your plagues! O Sheol, bring on your destruction! My eyes will not show any compassion!

  • Exod 21:30
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    30If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

  • Job 22:29-30
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    29When people are brought low and you say‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast;

    30he will deliver even someone who is not innocent, who will escape through the cleanness of your hands.”

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

    21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

  • Job 27:9
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    9Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him?

  • Job 30:24
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    24The 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 14:13-14
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    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

  • Job 36:15
    68%

    15He delivers the afflicted by their afflictions, he reveals himself to them by their suffering.

  • Job 34:23
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    23For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

  • Ps 49:15
    68%

    15But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety.(Selah)

  • Prov 21:18
    68%

    18The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the treacherous are taken in the place of the upright.

  • Exod 22:27
    68%

    27for it is his only covering– it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

  • Job 14:3
    68%

    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Job 31:14
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    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

  • Ps 30:9
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    9“What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?

  • Job 6:23
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    23Or‘Deliver me from the enemy’s power, and from the hand of tyrants ransom me’?

  • Job 24:22-23
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    22But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

    23God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

  • Ps 49:7-8
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    67%

    7Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price

    8(the ransom price for a human life is too high, and people go to their final destiny),

  • Job 9:32-33
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    32For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

    33Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,

  • Job 27:22
    67%

    22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

  • Ps 94:13
    67%

    13in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.

  • Job 23:14
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    14For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

  • Lam 3:29
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    29Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

  • Job 19:25
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    25As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.

  • Job 13:19
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    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 22:26
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    26Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.

  • Job 16:21
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    21and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.

  • Jer 31:11
    66%

    11For the LORD will rescue the descendants of Jacob. He will secure their release from those who had overpowered them.

  • Job 10:7
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    7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

  • Ps 30:3
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    3O LORD, you pulled me up from Sheol; you rescued me from among those descending into the grave.

  • Gen 44:29
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    29If 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.’