He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
Parallel translations
- WEB He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’
- KJV He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- NKJV He will redeem his soul from going down to the Pit, And his life shall see the light.
- NASB ‘He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit, And my life will see the light.’
- NLT God rescued me from the grave, and now my life is filled with light.’
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Quick answer
The man testifies that God redeemed his soul from the pit so that he lives to see the light. It celebrates God as the rescuer from death.
Overview
Continuing his confession, the man praises God for redeeming his life from the pit and granting him to see the light of the living. The emphasis falls entirely on God's saving action. The language of redemption from the pit points forward to Christ, who delivers His people from death itself and gives them the light of life (John 8:12).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Job 33:24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
- Job 33:22He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
- Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- Job 3:9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
- Ps 49:19he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
- Isa 38:17–18Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- John 11:9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
- Ps 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
- Isa 9:2The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
- Job 22:28Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
- Rev 20:1–3Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
- Job 17:16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
- Ps 69:15Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
- Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 33:20so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
- Job 33:18to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
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