23. Elihu refers to himself as the divinely-sent ( Job 32:8 ; Job 33:6 ) "messenger," the "interpreter" to explain to Job and vindicate God's righteousness; such a one Eliphaz had denied that Job could look for ( Job 5:1 ), and Job ( Job 5:1- : ) had wished for such a "daysman" or umpire between him and God. The "messenger" of good is antithetical to the "destroyers" ( Job 5:1- : ). with him —if there be vouchsafed to the sufferer. The office of the interpreter is stated "to show unto man God's uprightness" in His dealings; or, as UMBREIT, "man's upright course towards God" ( Job 5:1- : ). The former is better; Job maintained his own "uprightness" ( Job 16:17 ; Job 27:5 ; Job 27:6 ); Elihu on the contrary maintains God's, and that man's true uprightness lies in submission to God. "One among a thousand" is a man rarely to be found. So Jesus Christ ( Song of Solomon 5:10 ). Elihu, the God-sent mediator of a temporal deliverance, is a type of the God-man Jesus Christ the Mediator of eternal deliverance: "the messenger of the covenant" ( Song of Solomon 5:10- : ). This is the wonderful work of the Holy Ghost, that persons and events move in their own sphere in such a way as unconsciously to shadow forth Him, whose "testimony is the Spirit of prophecy"; as the same point may be center of a small and of a vastly larger concentric circle. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-24" class="com-number"
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