Job 33 · Verse 28

Job 33:28

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Job 33:28, King James Version

Job 33:28 in other translations

BSBHe redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
WEBHe has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
ASVHe hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.
YLTHe hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'
DARBYHe hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.
BBEHe kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
WebsterHe will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

What does Job 33:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 33:25-28

25-28. Effects of restoration to God's favor; literally, to Job a temporal revival; spiritually, an eternal regeneration. The striking words cannot be restricted to their temporal meaning, as used by Elihu (1Pe 1:11, 12). his flesh shall be fresher than a child's--so Naaman, 2Ki 5:14, spiritually, Joh 3:3-7.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 28 He will deliver his soul - He will do that to every individual penitent sinner which he has promised in his word to do for a lost world - he will deliver his soul from going down to the pit of hell. And his life shall see the light - He shall walk in the light, as Christ is in the light; always enjoying a clear sense of his acceptance through the blood of the Lamb. See another mode of paraphrasing these verses at the end of the chapter.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 33:19-28

Job complained of his diseases, and judged by them that God was angry with him; his friends did so too: but Elihu shows that God often afflicts the body for good to the soul. This thought will be of great use for our getting good from sickness, in and by which God speaks to men. Pain is the fruit of sin; yet, by the grace of God, the pain of the body is often made a means of good to the soul. When afflictions have…

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Job 33:28 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

פָּדָ֣הpa.Dahhe has ransomedH6299
נַ֭פְשׁוֹnaf.shiself hisH5315
מֵעֲבֹ֣רme.'a.Vorfrom passing onH5674
בַּשָּׁ֑חַתba.Sha.chatin the pitH7845
וְ֝חַיָּתוֹve.chai.ya.toand life hisH2416
בָּא֥וֹרba.'oron the lightH216
תִּרְאֶֽה\׃tir.'Ehit will lookH7200

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 33:28

  • Job 33:24

    Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

  • Job 3:9

    Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

  • Job 3:16

    Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

  • Job 33:22

    Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

  • Job 3:20

    Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

  • Job 33:20

    So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

  • Isaiah 38:17-18

    Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

  • Revelation 20:1-3

    And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

  • Psalms 69:15

    Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

  • Isaiah 9:2

    The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

  • Job 22:28

    Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

  • Job 33:18

    He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
will deliver, etc. or, hath delivered my soul, etc. and mylife.
18,24; 17:16; Ps 55:23; 69:15; Isa 38:17,18; Re 20:1-3
see.
20,22; 3:9,16,20; Ps 49:19; Isa 9:2; Joh 11:9

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Context

  • Job 33:27

    He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

  • Job 33:28

    He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

  • Job 33:29

    Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

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Job 33:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Dios redimirá su alma, que no pase al sepulcro, y su vida se verá en luz.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Il a délivré mon âme pour qu’elle n’aille pas dans la fosse, et ma vie verra la lumière.
German
Elberfelder 1871		er hat meine Seele erlöst, daß sie nicht in die Grube fahre, und mein Leben erfreut sich des Lichtes
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Liberavit animam suam, ne pergeret in interitum, sed vivens lucem videret.