Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Job 33:24

“Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.”

Job 33:24 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Job 33:24, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Job 33. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

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

23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:

26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Psalms 49:7None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
  • 1 Peter 1:18Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
  • Job 33:18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
  • Matthew 20:28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • Romans 5:20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  • Exodus 33:19And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom …
  • Micah 7:18Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
  • Job 22:21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
  • Zechariah 9:11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
  • 1 Timothy 2:6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
  • Hosea 14:4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
  • Psalms 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
  • Romans 3:24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
  • Job 36:18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

More to meet God in Job

Job 1:5Job 33:26Job 42:8Job 42:10Job 40:4Job 37:23Job 33:23Job 1:21Job 1:10Job 40:2Job 33:27Job 1:8Job 24:1Job 2:11

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.