the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Job 33:22
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They are at death's door; the angels of death wait for them.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to the destroyers.
They are near death, and their life is almost over.
He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.
Yes, his soul draweth near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to the destroyers.
"Then his soul draws near to the pit [of destruction], And his life to those who bring death (the destroyers).
His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death.
His soule schal neiye to corrupcioun, and his lijf to thingis `bryngynge deeth.
He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
We feel death and the grave taking us in their grip.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.
And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.
His soul comes close to the pit and his life to those who bring death.
And his soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
They might be close to death, their lives about to end.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
His soule draweth neere vnto the graue, and his life to the destroyers.
His soul comes close to the grave, and his life to those who bring death.
Their souls draw near the Pit, and their lives to those who bring death.
So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life to the buriers.
Yea, his soul draws near to corruption, and his life to death.
they are about to go to the world of the dead.
So doth his soul draw near to the pit, and his life to the inflicters of death:
His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.
His soul draws near the Pit, and his life to those who bring death.
His soule draweth vnto the graue, and his lyfe to death.
His soul also draws nigh to death, and his life is in Hades.
He draws near to the Pit,and his life to the executioners.
Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to the destroyers.
And he draws near to the pit and his life to the killers.
Yea, his soul draws near to the Pit, and his life to those causing dying.
And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.
His soule draweth on to destruccion, & his life to death.
"Then his soul comes near to the pit, And his life to those who bring death.
Yes, his soul draws near the Pit, And his life to the executioners.
"Then his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to those who bring death.
Then his soul draws near to the pit,And his life to those who bring death.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
his soul: Job 7:7, Job 17:1, Job 17:13-16, 1 Samuel 2:6, Psalms 30:3, Psalms 88:3-5, Isaiah 38:10
his life: Job 15:21, Exodus 12:23, 2 Samuel 24:16, Psalms 17:4, Acts 12:23, 1 Corinthians 10:10, Revelation 9:11
Reciprocal: Job 33:28 - see Psalms 86:13 - and thou
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave,.... Not the soul, strictly and properly speaking, for that does not, nor is it laid in the grave at death, but returns to God that gave it; rather the body, for which it is sometimes put, and of which what is here said is true, see Psalms 16:10; or the person of the sick man, whose disease being so threatening, all hope is gone, and he is given up by his physicians and friends, and seemingly is at the grave's mouth, and that is ready for him, and he on the brink of that; which were the apprehensions Job had of himself, Job 17:1; see Psalms 88:3;
and his life to the destroyers; the destroying angels, as Aben Ezra, and so the Septuagint version: or destroying diseases, and so Mr. Broughton renders it, "to killing maladies"; or it may be to worms, which destroy the body in the grave, and which Job was sensible of would quickly be his case, Job 19:26; though some interpret it of those that kill, or of those that are dead, with whom they are laid that die; or of deaths corporeal and eternal, and the horrors and terrors of both, with which persons in such circumstances are sometimes distressed.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave - That is, he himself does, for the word soul is often used to denote self.
And his life to the destroyers - - לממתים lammitiym. literally, “to those causing death.” The interpretation commonly given of this is, “the angels of death” who were supposed to come to close human life; compare 2 Samuel 24:16-17. But it probably refers to diseases and pangs as having power to terminate life, and being the cause of the close of life. The meaning is, that the afflicted man comes very near to those acute sufferings which terminate life, and which by personification are here represented as the authors of death.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 33:22. His soul draweth near unto the grave — נפש nephesh, soul, is here taken for the immortal spirit, as it is distinguished from חיה chaiyah, the animal life. The former draws near to the pit, שחת shachath, corruption; perhaps he meant dissipation, considering it merely as the breath. The latter draws near לממתים lamemithim, to the dead; i.e., to those who are already buried. Mr. Good translates it the Destinies; and supposes the same is meant among the HEBREWS by the Memithim, as among the GREEKS by their Μοιραι; the LATINS, by their Parcae; the GOTHS, by their Fatal Sisters; the SCANDINAVIANS, by their goddess Hela; and the ARABIANS, by Azrael, or the angel of death. I think, however, the signification given above is more natural.
