Things New and Old.
Bible Treasury, 2nd Edition, Vol. 1, Addendum (2) re-issued in 1868.
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This is a very complete and wondrous chapter. It is Elihu's first word to Job, speaking to him as for God, of God, from God.
Job 33:1-5. His confidence and conscious authority, as from God; "not as the Scribes," or as Job's friends.
Job 33:6-7. His gentleness and sympathy. (See Peter, in Acts 10, John in Rom. 19-21, and Gal. 6:1). Jesus' sympathy offered from these.
Job 33:8-13. After a pause — after this preface, he begins his address, rebuking and exposing Job. This is as the Gospel deals with us. (See John 4)
Job 33:14. He states man's natural stupidness and insensibility touching God.
Job 33:15-22. He shows God using the plough — of a dream, of a striking providence, of bodily pain or sickness — in order to break up such fallow ground. And such is the work to this day. (See Acts.)
Job 33:23-24. The sower comes after the ploughman. (See Acts.) The seed is the Gospel. Ransom is provided of God, deliverance is brought to the sinner.
Job 33:25-26. The condition of the believer.
Job 33:27-28. A more rapid action on the sinner by the Spirit; an interpreter not used, as in Matt. 9:9. This is so still, as well as the cases in ver. 15-22.
Job 33:29-30. Elihu tells Job these are samples of God's way in saving souls.
Job 33:31-33. He asks Job at the last as at the first, had he anything to say.