Job 33:22-24

22They draw near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death. Or to the place of the dead

23Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright,

24and he is gracious to that person and says to God, ‘Spare them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for them—