He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
Cross References
Job 33:18to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
Job 33:28He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.'
Psalm 107:18They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
Treasury of Scripture
Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
his soul
Job 7:7
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 17:1,13-16
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me…
1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
his life
Job 15:21
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Exodus 12:23
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
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.
