Job 33:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

Job 33:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 33:28
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
Job 15:21
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Agency Atheism Attributes of God Conviction God Guidance Guilt

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-28)

God has spoken once to sinners by their own consciences, to keep them from the paths of the destroyer, but they perceive it not; they are not aware that the checks their own hearts give them in a sinful way are from God, but they are imputed to melancholy or the preciseness of their education; and therefore God speaks twice; he speaks a second time, and tries another way to convince and reclaim si…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. destroyers--angels of death commissioned by God to end man’s life (2Sa 24:16; Psa 78:49). The death pains personified may, however, be meant; so “gnawers” (see on Job 30:17).