- Bible
- Job
- Chapter 33
- Verse 30
To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
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Gill's Exposition
To bring back his soul from the pit,.... From the pit of the grave; at the mouth or on the brink of which he seemed to be in the apprehension of his friends, and having the sentence of death in…
Barnes' Notes
To bring back his soul from the pit - To keep him from descending to the grave, and to the dark world beneath. He takes these methods of warning people, in order that they may not bring destruction on…
Adam Clarke
To bring back his soul from the pit - Nearly a repetition of the promise in Job 33:28.
To be enlightened with the light of the living - An echo of Psa 56:13 : "Thou hast delivered my soul from death,…
We have here the conclusion of this first part of Elihu's discourse, in which, 1. He briefly sums up what he had said, showing that God's great and gracious design, in all the dispensations of his…
Elihu sums up his doctrine regarding the gracious purpose and effect of God's methods of speaking unto man.
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