Job 33:24
Good News Translation
In mercy the angel will say, "Release them! They are not to go down to the world of the dead. Here is the ransom to set them free."

New Revised Standard Version
and he is gracious to that person, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit; I have found a ransom;

Contemporary English Version
The angel shows kindness, commanding death to release us, because the price was paid.

New American Bible
He will take pity on him and say, “Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found him a ransom.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.

Then

Job 33:18 Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.

Job 22:21 Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.

Exodus 33:19 He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.

Exodus 34:6,7 And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true, . . .

Psalm 86:5,15 For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. . . .

Hosea 14:2,4 Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips. . . .

Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. . . .

Romans 5:20,21 Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound. . . .

Deliver

Job 36:10,11 He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity. . . .

Psalm 22:4 In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.

Psalm 30:9-12 What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth? . . .

Psalm 40:2 And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

Psalm 71:3 Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.

Psalm 86:13 For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

Isaiah 38:17-19 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. . . .

Jeremiah 31:20 Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender child: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him. Therefore are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.

Zechariah 9:11 Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.

I

Job 33:24 He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.

Psalm 49:7,8 No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom, . . .

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.

Romans 3:24-26 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, . . .

1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.

1 Peter 1:18,19 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: . . .

a ransom.

Context
Elihu Rebukes Job
23If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness, 24He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.25His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the days of his youth.…
Cross References
Job 33:18
Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.

Job 33:25
His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the days of his youth.

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

Job 36:18
Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.

Psalm 49:7
No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

Isaiah 38:17
Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Job 33:23
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