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Verse Job 33:24. _THEN HE IS GRACIOUS UNTO HIM_] He exercises mercy
towards fallen man, and gives command for his respite and pardon.
_DELIVER HIM FROM GOING DOWN TO THE PIT_] Let him who is thus
ins...
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THEN HE IS GRACIOUS UNTO HIM - That is, on the supposition that he
hears and regards what the messenger of God communicates. If he
rightly understands the reasons of the divine administration, and
acq...
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CHAPTER 33:8-33
_ 1. Elihu rebukes Job (Job 33:8)_
2. How God deals with man (Job 33:14)
3. How God in grace recovers (Job 33:23)
4. Mark well, Job, hearken unto me ...
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There is a second way, when a man is brought near to death, and the
destroying angels wait to take his life. Then an angel of mercy
instructs man in the meaning of his suffering, intercedes for him, a...
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A HANSOM. an Atonement. Hebrew. _kopher,_. covering by shedding of
blood, or the price of expiation, or atonement....
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_then he is gracious_ God is gracious; God, not the angel, is the
speaker in the rest of the verse. It is assumed that when the sufferer
is shewn what is right (Job 33:23) he follows it; then God is g...
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The intervention of the heavenly messenger....
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These verses may describe another instance of God's dealing with man,
or a further discipline of the same person (Job 33:15), the result
stated Job 33:18 not having been attained. The passage has four...
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When Elihu gives the general answer to Job's charges against God that
"God is greater than man" he means that the moral loftiness of God's
nature made it impossible that He should act in the arbitrary...
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DISCOURSE: 484
THE BENEFIT OF VISITING THE SICK
Job 33:23. _If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one
among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness; then he is
gracious unto him, and...
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4. A messenger (angel) may interpret to man what is right, that he be
led to pray and to confess his guilt. (Job 33:23-28)
TEXT 33:23-28
23 IF THERE BE WITH HIM AN ANGEL,
An interpreter, one among...
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_THEN HE IS GRACIOUS UNTO HIM, AND SAITH, DELIVER HIM FROM GOING DOWN
TO THE PIT: I HAVE FOUND A RANSOM._
He is gracious - God. This verse is the apodosis to Job 33:23.
DELIVER - literally, redeem:...
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33:24 Deliver (i-10) Elsewhere 'redeem.'...
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THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED)
1-13. Elihu blames Job for regarding himself as sinless, and
complaining that' God is his enemy and will not answer him....
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 33
ELIHU SPEAKS TO JOB
V1...
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‘God speaks in many different ways. But we do not always hear him’
(verse 14). Elihu used two stories to explain this idea. The first
story is in verses 15-18. This sounds like Eliphaz’s strange dream...
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This servant may be an angel. Angels are God’s special servants from
heaven. But Elihu may be describing a person who brings God’s
message.
This servant is very special. He is one among thousands. An...
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THEN HE IS GRACIOUS UNTO HIM — _i.e._, God is gracious; He accepts
the mediation of the mediating angel. These words of Elihu’s must
have fallen on Job’s ear with a grateful and refreshing sound,
conf...
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וַ יְחֻנֶּ֗נּוּ וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר
פְּ֭דָעֵהוּ מֵ רֶ
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XXV.
POST-EXILIC WISDOM
Job 32:1; Job 33:1; Job 34:1
A PERSONAGE hitherto unnamed in the course of the drama now assumes
the place of critic and judge between Job and his friends. Elihu, son
of Bara...
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THE INTERPRETER
Job 33:1
It is not wonderful that Elihu has been mistaken for the Mediator
Himself, so helpfully does he interpose between Job and his Maker. He
dwells especially on his own likeness...
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Elihu began his direct appeal to Job by asking his attention, assuring
him of sincerity in motive, and finally declaring that he spoke to him
as a comrade, not as a judge, or one who would fill him wi...
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Then he is (o) gracious unto him, and saith, (p) Deliver him from
going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
(o) He shows that it is a sure token of God's mercy toward sinners,
when he causes his...
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(18) He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from
perishing by the sword. (19) В¶ He is chastened also with pain upon
his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: (20) So that...
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Elihu's Speeches
I. INTRODUCTION
A. In our last study of the book of Job (Chapter s 11-14), - Job had
just replied to Zophar's speech.
1. Chapter 14 concludes the "first round" of speeches by Job's...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 THROUGH 37.
But these spiritual affections of Job did not prevent his turning this
consciousness of integrity into a robe of self-righteousness which hid
G...
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THEN HE IS GRACIOUS TO HIM,.... To the sick man; either the messenger
or the minister that is with him, who pities his case and prays for
him; and by some the following words are supposed to be a pray...
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Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down
to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Ver. 24. _Then is he gracious unto him, and saith_] If the sick man,
thus counselled and comfor...
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_If there be a messenger with him_ If there be a prophet or teacher
with the afflicted man; _an interpreter_ One whose office and work it
is to declare to him the mind and will of God, and his design...
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then He is gracious unto him, God Himself has mercy on the poor
mortal, AND SAITH, namely, to the angel fulfilling His will, DELIVER
HIM FROM GOING DOWN TO THE PIT; I HAVE FOUND A RANSOM, an atonement...
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OF THE TRUE RELATION OF SINFUL MAN TOWARD GOD...
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HE SPEAKS AS A MEDIATOR
(vv.1-7)
Elihu did not take any haughty and unfeeling attitude as did Job's
three friends, but speaks with simple humility, entreating Job to hear
and consider what he says ...
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A RANSOM:
Or, an atonement...
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19-28 Job complained of his diseases, and judged by them that God was
angry with him; his friends did so too: but Elihu shows that God often
afflicts the body for good to the soul. This thought will...
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THEN; in that case, or upon the sick man's knowledge and practice of
his duty. HE; either,
1. The messenger or interpreter last mentioned, who is pitiful unto
the sick man, and in companion to him do...
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Job 33:24 gracious H2603 (H8799) says H559 (H8799) Deliver H6308
(H8798) down H3381 (H8800) Pit...
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Job 33:24
It was a hard and marvellous thing to find that ransom, something so
precious and so vast that it should outweigh in God's balances the sin
and the condemnation of the whole world.
Looking...
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This is part of the speech of young Elihu, who had listened with much
patience, but also with great indignation, to the harsh speeches of
Job's three friends and to Job's self-righteous answers.
Job...
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This is a speech of young Elihu, who had sat quietly listening to the
taunting words of the three «candid friends» of Job, and to the
somewhat exasperated replies of the patriarch. At last, the young...
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CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. Affliction is shown to be
discipline.
CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job.
CONCLUSION: God often afflicts the body in love and with gracious
designs of good to the sou...
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Job 33:4. _The Spirit of God hath made me._ See on Genesis 2:7, and
Psalms 33:6. The creation of man was known to all the descendants of
Noah, much the same as to Moses. Sanchoniatho the Phœnician
his...
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_If there be any messenger with him, an interpreter._
HOW TO VISIT THE SICK
It is not man’s torment or ruin that God desires, but his
reformation and amendment. To this end He speaks to men in dreams...
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_He is chastened also with pain upon his bed._
SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION
Two Chapter s in the hook of human life are hard to understand--the
prosperity of the wicked, and the afflictions of the righteou...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 33:1 Elihu opens and closes this section with a call
for Job to listen to his words and answer if he is able (vv. Job 33:1,...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 33:23 Elihu poses a hypothetical situation in which
an ANGEL or MEDIATOR might deliver a person (vv. Job 33:23). He
suggests
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_ELIHU’S FIRST SPEECH_
Elihu addresses himself to Job on the subject of God’s afflictive
dispensations. Afflictions often disciplinary chastisements.
I. HE BESPEAKS JOB’S CAREFUL ATTENTION TO ALL TH...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 33:1
In this chapter Elihu, turning away from the "comforters," proceeds to
address Job himself, offering to reason out the matter in dispute with
him, in God's stead. After a brief e...
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Wherefore, Job, [he said,] I pray thee, now hear my speech, hearken to
all my words. Behold, I've opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my
mouth. My words shall be of uprightness of my heart: and m...
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GOD'S METHOD OF GRACE
Job 33:18
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
In our Scripture today Elihu is addressing Job, and his three supposed
friends. Elihu had listened to the speeches of Bildad, Zophar, and
Eliphaz....
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HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB
Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
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He — God. A ransom — Although I might justly destroy him, yet I
will spare him, for I have found out a way of ransoming sinners from
death, which is the death of my son, the redeemer of the world, and...