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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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Ministry on This Verse

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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• 19{i}And 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.{/i} (Ex. 33:19)
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Ex. 34:6‑7• 6{i}And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,{/i}
 7{i}keeping 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.{/i} (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• 18{i}Who 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.{/i}
 19{i}He 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.{/i}
 20{i}Thou wilt perform truth to Jacob, loving-kindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers, from the days of old.{/i} (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• 11{i}As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I will send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.{/i} (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• 28{i}as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.{/i} (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.