Job 33:30 [God worketh with man] to to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
The resurrection promise is at the core of all the promises, all our hope, and all of life. We know with absolute certainty and without a doubt that we will rise again in the body at the Last Day, because Jesus already did, and we are United with Him by faith. There is bodily resurrection hope in this promise about being brought back from the pit. Although the body is not mentioned here, the resurrection of the body is a basic Scriptural promise. “The Pit” is the grave into which the dead body is placed, either literally or symbolically, if the body is disposed of in some other way. “An hour is coming when all who are in the tombs (pits) will hear his voice and come out [John 5:28].”
The second aspect of this promise (to bring back from the pit) is the conversion of the sinner from spiritual death to spiritual life and faith. When a sinner believes in Christ he is brought from death to life: “Whoever hears my word and believes…has passed from death to life [John 5:24].” The sinner without Christ is dead in sin, without God, and in the Pit. But by faith we are alive to God. We see the light.
Thirdly, we may apply this promise to our everyday lives. At times the Christian may get down in the dumps, or “in the pits,” for many different reasons. These so-called “little deaths” are caused by sin, either by a specific sin or by general sin in the world. Through the gospel the Lord will deliver us from these “little pits” and bring us back into the light of life. So we pray: “Good Lord, deliver us. Bring me back.”