He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’
- BSB He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to 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 33:24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
- Job 33:22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
- Job 3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- Job 3:9Let 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:
- Ps 49:19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
- Isa 38:17–18Behold, 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.
- John 11:9Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
- Ps 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Isa 9:2The 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 22:28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
- Rev 20:1–3And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
- Job 17:16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
- Ps 69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
- Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
- Job 33:20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
- Job 33:18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
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