Job Chapter 33 verse 23 Holy Bible
If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is right for him;
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If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;
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If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his duty;
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If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
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If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness:
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"If there is beside him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show to man what is right for him;
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If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter -- one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - If there be a messenger with him; rather, an angel (see the Revised Version). It is generally supposed that "the angel of the covenant" is meant, and that the whole passage is Messianic; but much obscurity hangs over it. The Jews certainly understand it Messianically, since they read it on the great Day of Atonement, and use in their liturgies the prayer, "Raise up for us the righteous Interpreter; say, I have found a ransom." Elihu's knowledge of an Interpreter, or Mediator, one among a thousand, who should deliver the afflicted man from going down to the pit, and find a ransom for him (ver. 24), is certainly very surprising; and we can scarcely imagine that he understood the full force of his words; but it cannot be right to denude them of their natural signification Elihu certainly did not mean to speak of himself as an "angel-interpreter, one among a thousand;" and it is not probable that he intends a reference to any merely human helper. To show unto man. his uprightness; either "to show to a man what it is right for him to do," or "to indicate to a man in what true righteousness consists."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) To show unto man his uprightness.--Some render, "to show unto man what is right for him," but it seems rather to mean, to declare concerning that man his uprightness, to plead his cause before God and be his advocate. (Comp. 1Kings 14:13; 2Chronicles 19:3, &c.)This angel, who is one among a thousand, and discharges the function of an interpreter, is a remarkable anticipation of the existence of that function with God which is discharged by the Advocate with the Father (1John 2:1; Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25). It is impossible for us who believe that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God not to see in this an indication of what God intended afterwards to teach us concerning the intercession and mediation of the Son and the intercession of the Holy Spirit on behalf of man (Romans 8:26). (Comp. John 14:16.) . . .
