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Job 33:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then he is gracious
chanan (Hebrew #2603)
properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition)
KJV usage: beseech, X fair, (be, find, shew) favour(-able), be (deal, give, grant (gracious(-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon), have pity upon, pray, make supplication, X very.
Pronounce: khaw-nan'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2583)
unto him, and saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Deliver
pada` (Hebrew #6308)
to retrieve
KJV usage: deliver.
Pronounce: paw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
him from going down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
to the pit
shachath (Hebrew #7845)
a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction
KJV usage: corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
Pronounce: shakh'-ath
Origin: from 7743
: I have found
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
θa ransom
kopher (Hebrew #3724)
properly, a cover, i.e. (literally) a village (as covered in); (specifically) bitumen (as used for coating), and the henna plant (as used for dyeing); figuratively, a redemption-price
KJV usage: bribe, camphire, pitch, ransom, satisfaction, sum of money, village.
Pronounce: ko'-fer
Origin: from 3722
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or, an atonement.

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Job 33:18• 18He keepeth back his soul from corruption,{HR}And his life from passing away by the dart. (Job 33:18)
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Job 22:21• 21Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with him, and be at peace;{HR}Thereby shall good come to thee. (Job 22:21)
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Ex. 33:19• 19And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thy face, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. (Ex. 33:19)
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Ex. 34:6‑7• 6And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,
 7keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. (Ex. 34:6‑7)
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Psa. 86:5,15• 5For thou, Lord, [art] good and forgiving,{HR}And great in mercy to all that call on thee.
 15And thou, Lord, [art] a God (El) merciful and gracious,{HR}Slow of rage and great in mercy and truth. (Psa. 86:5,15)
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Hos. 14:2,4• 2Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips.
 4I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. (Hos. 14:2,4)
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Mic. 7:18‑20• 18Who is a God like unto thee, that forgiveth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in loving-kindness.
 19He will yet again have compassion on us, he will tread under foot our iniquities: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
 20Thou wilt perform truth to Jacob, loving-kindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers, from the days of old. (Mic. 7:18‑20)
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Rom. 5:20‑21• 20But law came in by the way, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace over-abounded
 21that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness unto life eternal by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:20‑21)
Deliver.
Job 36:10‑11• 10And he openeth their ear to the instruction,{HR}And saith to them, that they turn back from vanity.
 11If they hear and serve, they end their days in good,{HR}And their years in pleasantness; (Job 36:10‑11)
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Psa. 22:4• 4In thee our fathers trusted;{HR}They trusted, and thou dost deliver them. (Psa. 22:4)
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Psa. 30:9‑12• 9What gain [is] in my blood, in my going down to the pit?{HR}Shall dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
 10Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious to me;{HR}O Jehovah, be a helper unto me.
 11Thou hast turned my lamentation into a dance;{HR}Thou hast loosed for me my sackcloth,{HR}And thou girdest me with joy:
 12So that glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent.{HR}O Jehovah, my God, I will give thee thanks forever. (Psa. 30:9‑12)
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Psa. 40:2• 2And he brought me up from a pit of noise,{HR}From the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock;{HR}He fixed my steps. (Psa. 40:2)
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Psa. 71:3• 3Be to me a rock of dwelling for continual resort;{HR}Thou hast commanded to save me;{HR}For my rock (crag) and my fortress [art] thou. (Psa. 71:3)
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Psa. 86:13• 13For thy mercy [is] great unto me,{HR}And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. (Psa. 86:13)
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Isa. 38:17‑19• 17Behold, for peace I had bitterness on bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
 18For Sheol doth not praise thee, [nor] death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
 19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day; the father to the children shall make known thy truth. (Isa. 38:17‑19)
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Jer. 31:20• 20Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:20)
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Zech. 9:11• 11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I will send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. (Zech. 9:11)
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Job 33:24• 24And he is gracious to him, and saith,{HR}Deliver him from going down to corruption:{HR}I have found a ransom. (Job 33:24)
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Psa. 49:7‑8• 7In no wise can a man redeem a brother,{HR}He giveth not to God a ransom for him
 8(But the redemption-price of their soul [is] precious,{HR}And it hath ceased forever), (Psa. 49:7‑8)
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Matt. 20:28• 28as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many. (Matt. 20:28)
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Rom. 3:24‑26• 24being justified gratuitously by his grace through the redemption that [is] in Christ Jesus,
 25whom God set forth as a propitiatory through faith in his blood, for a declaration of his righteousness on account of the praeter-mission of the sins that had been before, in the forbearance of God,
 26with a view to the declaration of his righteousness in the present time, in order to his being just and justifying him that [is] of faith in Jesus. (Rom. 3:24‑26)
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1 Tim. 2:6• 6who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times, (1 Tim. 2:6)
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1 Peter 1:18‑19• 18knowing that not by corruptibles, silver or gold, ye were redeemed, from your vain course ancestrally handed down,
 19but by precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, (1 Peter 1:18‑19)
a ransom.
or, an atonement.
• In Elihu’s words we find a beautiful expression of the evangel of God— “Then He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom;” or, in the language of the New Testament— “having obtained (Gk., found) eternal redemption” (Heb. 9:12). (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliveri him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

JND Translation Notes

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Elsewhere "redeem."

W. Kelly Translation

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And he is gracious to him, and saith,{HR}Deliver him from going down to corruption:{HR}I have found a ransom.