Job 33:6

Job 33:6 Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

Ver. 6. Behold, I am according to thy wish ] Heb. According to thy mouth. If the saints do but open their mouths wide God will fill them; he will give them not only the desires of their hearts, but the request of their lips, Psalms 21:2 , fulfil all their counsel, Psalms 20:4 , in that very way, by that very means, they wished it: he fitteth his mercy ad cardinem desiderii; and lets it be to his even as they will. Was it not so with Job here?

In God’s stead] Heb. For God, to act and plead for him, and to show how thou hast dealt with him. So ministers are said to be in Christ’s stead, 2 Corinthians 5:20 . A great mercy, that he will treat with us by men like ourselves.

I also am formed out of the clay ] Et non ex meliore luto effictus, of the same make and matter with thyself, cut out of the same lump, digged out of the same pit. He alludeth to Genesis 2:7 , the wonderful formation of those protoplasts, as a potter mouldeth his pots, cutting them out of the lump. And the like God doth for men still, by that, viz. πλαστικη , that is in the seed, making it prolific, and generative.