Catholic Public Domain Version
"rescuing his soul from corruption and his life from passing away by the sword. "
— Job 33:18, Catholic Public Domain Version
“He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.”
“He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword. ”
“He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.”
“He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.”
“Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.”
“To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.”
“He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.”
Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in their beds,
then, he opens the ears of men, and, educating them, he teaches discipline,
so that he may divert a man from the things that he is doing, and may free him from pride,
rescuing his soul from corruption and his life from passing away by the sword.
Likewise, he rebukes by sorrow in bed, and he causes all of his bones to become weak.
Bread becomes abominable to him in his life, and, to his soul, the meat which before he desired.
His body will waste away, and his bones, which had been covered, will be revealed.