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

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

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

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. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.