Job 33:28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
This promise through Elihu is based on the condition of repentance, as the previous verse says, “if any say, I have sinned.” If you say you have sinned and perverted that which was right, then God will deliver you from the pit and your life will see light. In simple words: Repent, and You will be saved from death and darkness. Jesus saves from eternal death and gives eternal life to all. Repentance and faith receives the gift of life and light.
Elihu is trying to convince Job that he should repent (“say, ‘I have sinned’”), for some sin is obviously the cause of his suffering and the loss of his health and prosperity. Elihu is wrong in applying this principle specifically to Job, but he is right in proclaiming this truth generally to all people: Repent and be delivered. Every human needs to repent daily, for daily we sin much, and everyone needs deliverance from death and darkness daily, for Christ delivers daily. We don’t let a day go by without making an “altar call.” The Spirit leads us to the cross, where we kneel and repent of sin and receive forgiveness of sin.
God daily and richly forgives all my sins. He delivers my soul from going into the pit. “The Pit” is a place eternal death and darkness and utter separation from God. From this deliver us, good Lord. We may be deceived into thinking that hell is on earth and some days we are “in the pits,” but we are wrong. For that is nothing like the eternal lake of fire prepared for the devil and his angels. A “taste” of hell, or heaven, is nothing like the real thing.
My life will “see the light.” And this light is nothing like the sun or anything we have ever seen. The soul sees this light now by faith, but then we have the promise of beholding face to face the blinding (actually, eye-opening) light of the glory of the love of God. This is the promised outcome of repentance and faith. Behold it now.