30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Behold, 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.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. …
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-33)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 providence towards the children of men, is to save them from being for ever miserable and bring them to be for ever happy, Job 33:29 , 30 . All these things God is working with the children of men . He d…
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