John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 33:23
Job 33:23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: Ver. 23. If there be a messenger with him ] An angel, say some; but one man may be an angel to another, as Bradford was to Dr Taylor, martyr, who usually called him, That angel of God, John Bradford. If some prophet or teacher sent of God see Judges 2:1 Malachi 3:1-18 : 1Ki 1:20 to the sick man, who seeth his face as the face of an angel, and receiveth him as an angel, yea,... read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 33:22
Job 33:22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. Ver. 22. Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave ] His soul, that is, his body, as Job 33:18 , for Elihu was no mortalist, neither dreamed he of a psychopannychia. All-night sleep of the soul; a state in which (according to some) the soul sleeps between death and the day of judgement. He is in the very confines of death, and no ways likely to recover; he is free among the dead, as the psalmist hath it. And... read more