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Job 33:18 King James He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
his soul--his life.

the pit--the grave; a symbol of hell.

perishing by the sword--that is, a violent death; in the Old Testament a symbol of the future punishment of the ungodly.
 
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30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.