Job 33:22
Good News Translation
they are about to go to the world of the dead.

New Revised Standard Version
Their souls draw near the Pit, and their lives to those who bring death.

Contemporary English Version
We feel death and the grave taking us in their grip.

New American Bible
His soul draws near to the pit, his life to the place of the dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.

his soul

Job 7:7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Job 17:1,13-16 My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me. . . .

1 Samuel 2:6 The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

Psalm 30:3 Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 88:3-5 For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. . . .

Isaiah 38:10 I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.

his life

Job 15:21 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.

Exodus 12:23 For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt you.

2 Samuel 24:16 And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said to the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.

Psalm 17:4 That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.

Acts 12:23 And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

1 Corinthians 10:10 Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Revelation 9:11 A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans).

Context
Elihu Rebukes Job
21His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare. 22His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.23If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness,…
Cross References
Job 33:18
Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.

Job 33:28
He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.

Psalm 107:18
Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.

Job 33:21
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