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Job 33:18
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He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
God does this to save people from death, to keep them from dying.
He spares a person's life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
He holds back his soul from the pit [of destruction], And his life from passing over into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).
he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
and his lijf, that it go not in to swerd.
to preserve his soul from the Pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
and to protect us from being swept away to the world of the dead.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.
so that he will keep himself away from the pit and from perishing by the sword.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the sword.
He does this to save them from death. He wants to keep them from being destroyed.
That He may keep back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Hee keepeth backe his soule from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
He keeps his soul from going to the place of the dead. And He keeps his life from being destroyed by the sword.
to spare their souls from the Pit, their lives from traversing the River.
And keepe backe his soule from the pit, & that his life should not passe by the sword.
He spares his soul from corruption, and his life from perdition.
He will not let them be destroyed; he saves them from death itself.
He keepeth back his said from the pit, and his life from passing away by a weapon.
Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.
he keeps back his soul from the Pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
And kepe his soule from the graue, and his life from the sworde.
He spares also his soul from death, and suffers him not to fall in war.
God spares his soul from the Pit,his life from crossing the river of death.
He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
He spares his life from the pit and his life from passing over the river of death.
He holds back his soul from the Pit, and his life from passing by the sword.
He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.
kepeth his soule from destruccion, & his life from ye swearde.
He keeps his soul back from the pit, And his life from perishing by the spear.
He keeps back his soul from the Pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from passing over into Sheol.
He holds back his soul from the pit,And his life from passing over to death by a weapon.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
keepeth: Acts 16:27-33, Romans 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9, 2 Peter 3:15
perishing: Heb. passing
Reciprocal: Job 17:16 - the bars of the pit Job 33:24 - Then Job 33:28 - will deliver Job 36:8 - if Psalms 86:13 - and thou Ezekiel 28:8 - shall bring Joel 2:8 - sword Acts 9:11 - for 1 Corinthians 11:32 - we are
Cross-References
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy mother's brother.
Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He keepeth back his soul from the pit,.... Or, "that he may keep back" n; for this is another end and use of God's speaking unto men; it is to preserve them for the present from going down to the grave, the pit of corruption and destruction; so called because the bodies of men, being there laid, corrupt, and are entirely destroyed by worms, and turn to rottenness and dust; and to preserve them from the bottomless pit of everlasting ruin and destruction; for the Lord's people are reproved by him, that they may not be condemned with the world, 1 Corinthians 11:32;
and his life from perishing by the sword; by the sword of men, which is one of God's sore judgments; or by the sword of the civil magistrate, the man spoken to being warned of God of committing these sins, which would bring him into the hands of such; or by the sword of divine justice; Jarchi interprets it of the sword of the angel of death; the word signifies a missive weapon, as a dart; so Mr. Broughton renders the words, "and his life from going on the dart": or, as another version has it, "lest it should go on under the cast of darts" o; the darts of an enemy in war, or the fiery darts of Satan, Ephesians 6:16.
n יחשך "ut prohibeat", Mercerus, Piscator. o Tigurine version.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He keepeth back his soul from the pit - The word soul in the Hebrew is often equivalent to self, and the idea is, that he keeps the man from the pit in this manner. The object of these warnings is to keep him from rushing on to his own destruction. The word rendered “pit” - שׁחת shachath, properly means a pit, or pitfall, in which traps are laid for wild animals; Psalms 7:15; Psalms 9:15; then a cistern that is miry; Job 9:31; a prison, Isaiah 51:14; then the grave, or sepulchre, as being often a cavern; Job 17:13; Psalms 30:9; see Job 33:28, Job 33:30. It evidently means here the grave, and the sense is, that God thus warns people against pursuing a course of conduct which would lead them to destruction, or would speedily terminate their lives.
And his life from perishing by the sword - Margin, “passing by.” The meaning of the Hebrew may be, “to keep his life from passing away by the sword;” as if the sword were the means by which the life or soul passed from the body. The word rendered sword here - שׁלח shelach is from שׁלח shâlach - to send, cast, hurl, and the reference is rather to something sent, as of an arrow, dart, javelin, than to a sword. The sense is not materially varied, and the idea referred to is that of a violent death. The meaning is, that God by these warnings would keep a man from such a course of life as would lead to a death by violence - either by punishment for his crime, or by being cut off in war.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 33:18. He keepeth back his soul from the pit — By the above means, how many have been snatched from an untimely death! By taking the warning thus given, some have been prevented from perishing by the pit - some sudden accident; and others from the sword of the assassin or nocturnal murderer. It would be easy to give examples, in all these kinds; but the knowledge of the reader may save this trouble to the commentator.
