6 I am the same as you in God's sight; I too am a piece of clay.
6 Behold, I am according to thy wish
6 Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
6 Look, I'm human - no better than you; we're both made of the same kind of mud.
6 Truly I am as your spokesman before God; I also have been formed out of clay.
6 Look, you and I both belong to God. I, too, was formed from clay.
23 Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright,
23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
23 If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him,
23 "But even then an angel could come, a champion - there are thousands of them! - to take up your cause,
23 "If there is a messenger for him, A mediator, one among a thousand, To show man His uprightness,
23 "But if an angel from heaven appears- a special messenger to intercede for a person and declare that he is upright-
(Read Job 33:19-28)
Job complained of his diseases, and judged by them that God was angry with him; his friends did so too: but Elihu shows that God often afflicts the body for good to the soul. This thought will be of great use for our getting good from sickness, in and by which God speaks to men. Pain is the fruit of sin; yet, by the grace of God, the pain of the body is often made a means of good to the soul. When afflictions have done their work, they shall be removed. A ransom or propitiation is found. Jesus Christ is the Messenger and the Ransom, so Elihu calls him, as Job had called him his Redeemer, for he is both the Purchaser and the Price, the Priest and the sacrifice. So high was the value of souls, that nothing less would redeem them; and so great the hurt done by sin, that nothing less would atone for it, than the blood of the Son of God, who gave his life a ransom for many. A blessed change follows. Recovery from sickness is a mercy indeed, when it proceeds from the remission of sin. All that truly repent of their sins, shall find mercy with God. The works of darkness are unfruitful works; all the gains of sin will come far short of the damage. We must, with a broken and contrite heart, confess our sins to God, 1 John 1:9. We must confess the fact of sin; and not try to justify or excuse ourselves. We must confess the fault of sin; I have perverted that which was right. We must confess the folly of sin; So foolish have I been and ignorant. Is there not good reason why we should make such a confession?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 33:6
Commentary on Job 33:1-7
(Read Job 33:1-7)
Job had desired a judge to decide his appeal. Elihu was one according to his wish, a man like himself. If we would rightly convince men, it must be by reason, not by terror; by fair argument, not by a heavy hand.