Job 33:24

Elihu describes God graciously sparing a suffering man from death, having found a ransom for him. It pictures God's mercy that rescues sinners from judgment.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 49:7–8none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
• Job 33:18He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
• Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• 1 Pet 1:18–19knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
• 1 Tim 2:6who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• Zech 9:11As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
• Hos 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
• Exod 33:19He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
• Job 22:21“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.
• Jer 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
• Isa 38:17–19Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
• Ps 22:4Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
• Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
• Job 36:18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
• Ps 71:3Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
• Rom 3:24–26being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
• Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
• Ps 30:9–12“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
• Job 36:10–11He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
• Ps 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
• Ps 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
• Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

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