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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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Who is the Messenger?
Scholars debate the identity of the "messenger." Some argue it refers to a wise human teacher sent to explain God's righteous purpose in suffering. However, many commentators, including Spurgeon, Gill, and Henry, see a clear reference to Jesus Christ, the ultimate "Messenger of the covenant" and Mediator between God and humanity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If there is a messenger with him - This part of the speech of Elihu has given rise to scarcely less diversity of opinion, and to scarcely le…
19th Century
Anglican
To show to man his uprightness. —Some render, “to show to man what is right for him,” but it seems rather to mean, to declare …
Baptist
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand to show unto man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto him, and sait…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If there be a messenger with him Or angel, either with God, as some think; or rather with the sick man; by which messenger is …
Job complained of his diseases and concluded from them that God was angry with him; his friends did so too. But Elihu shows that God often afflicts…
13th Century
Catholic
Elihu has already proposed the things he intended to debate with Job. Since Job, before he spoke the words Elihu cited (Job 33:10–11), …
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