“If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:”
Then he is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom, depicting the mediator's advocacy before God, speaking on behalf of the sufferer and offering ransom for redemption. The graciousness suggests favorable divine response. The command to deliver from pit suggests rescue. The ransom suggests price paid for redemption. The verse describes the mechanism of rescue through mediation.
Church Fathers on Job 33:23
If there shall be an Angel, speaking for him one of like things to shew the righteousness of man, he will pity him. For who is this Angel, but He who is called by the Prophet, The Angel of mighty counsel? [Is. 9, lxx.] For because to declare is called “evangelize” in Greek, the Lord in announcing Himself to us is called ‘Angel.’ And he well says, If there shall be a messenger speaking for him; because, as the Apostle says, He even intercedes for us. But let us hear what he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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