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Job 33:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:

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a messenger.

Judg. 2:1• ¹And the angel of Jehovah, came up from Gilgal to Bochim, {i}and said,{/i} I have made you go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. (Judg. 2:1)

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2 Chron. 36:15‑16• ¹⁵{i}And Jehovah the God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending; because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling-place.{/i}
¹⁶{i}But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.{/i} (2 Chron. 36:15‑16)

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Hag. 1:13• ¹³Then spake Haggai Jehovah’s messenger in Jehovah’s message to the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah. (Hag. 1:13)

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Mal. 2:7• ⁷For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 2:7)

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Mal. 3:1• ¹Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:1)

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2 Cor. 5:20• ²⁰For Christ then we are ambassadors, God as it were beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God: (2 Cor. 5:20)

an interpreter.

Job 34:32• ³²Things beyond [what] I see teach me:{HR}I have done iniquity — I will not do it again. (Job 34:32)

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Psa. 94:12• ¹²Blessed [is] the man whom thou disciplinest, O Jah,{HR}And teachest out of thy law; (Psa. 94:12)

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Isa. 61:1‑3• ¹The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah [is] upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and opening of the prison to the bound;
²to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
³to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty be given them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he might be glorified. (Isa. 61:1‑3)

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Acts 8:30• ³⁰And Philip running up heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? (Acts 8:30)

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1 Cor. 11:30‑32• ³⁰For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and rather many are falling asleep.
³¹But if we were discerning ourselves, we should not be judged;
³²but when judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. (1 Cor. 11:30‑32)

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Heb. 12:5‑12• ⁵And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation the which discourseth with you as sons, My son, regard not lightly Jehovah's chastening, nor faint when reproved of him:
⁶for whom Jehovah loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
⁷For chastisement ye are enduring: God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son [is he] whom a father chasteneth not?
⁸But if ye are apart from chastisement of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
⁹Then indeed we had fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of the spirits and live?
¹⁰For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit in order to the partaking of his holiness.
¹¹Now no chastisement for the time seemeth to be of joy but of grief; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit of righteousness to those that have been exercised thereby.
¹²Wherefore lift up the exhausted hands and the enfeebled knees, (Heb. 12:5‑12)

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Job 9:3• ³If he desire to dispute with him,{HR}He cannot answer him one of a thousand: (Job 9:3)

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Eccl. 7:28• ²⁸Which my soul still seeketh,{HR}But I have not found:{HR}One man among a thousand have I found;{HR}But a woman among all those have I not found. (Eccl. 7:28)

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Rom. 11:13• ¹³For I speak to you the Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry, (Rom. 11:13)

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Job 11:6• ⁶And make known to thee the secrets of wisdom;{HR}That they are doubled by inspection,{HR}And God remitteth to thee of thine iniquity. (Job 11:6)

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Job 34:10,12• ¹⁰Therefore, hear me, ye men of heart;{HR}Far be it from God [El] to do wickedness,{HR}And [from] Shaddai to do perverseness.
¹²Yea, verily, God [El] doth not act wickedly,{HR}And Shaddai doth not pervert the right. (Job 34:10,12)

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Job 35:14• ¹⁴Though thou say thou seest him not,{HR}Judgment [is] before him, and wait thou on him. (Job 35:14)

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Job 36:3,8‑13• ³I will fetch my knowledge from afar,{HR}And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
⁸And if, bound in fetters,{HR}They be held with cords of affliction,
⁹Then he showeth them their work,{HR}And their transgressions that they have been mighty;
¹⁰And he openeth their ear to the instruction,{HR}And saith to them, that they turn back from vanity.
¹¹If they hear and serve, they end their days in good,{HR}And their years in pleasantness;
¹²But if they hear not, their soul passes by the dart,{HR}And expireth in want of knowledge;
¹³And the impious in heart lay up wrath,{HR}They cry not when he bindeth them; (Job 36:3,8‑13)

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Job 37:23• ²³The Almighty! we do not find him out;{HR}Great in power and judgment,{HR}And great in righteousness, he will not give answer. (Job 37:23)

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Neh. 9:33• ³³{i}But thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast acted according to truth, and we have done wickedly.{/i} (Neh. 9:33)

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Psa. 119:75• ⁷⁵I know, Jehovah, that thy judgments [are] righteousness,{HR}And [in] faithfulness thou hast afflicted me. (Psa. 119:75)

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Lam. 3:22‑23,32,39‑41• ²²It is of Jehovah's mercies that we are not consumed, because his mercies fail not.
²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
³²but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
⁴¹Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. (Lam. 3:22‑23,32,39‑41)

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Ezek. 18:25‑28• ²⁵Yet ye say, The way of Jehovah is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
²⁶When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
²⁷Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
²⁸Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. (Ezek. 18:25‑28)

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Dan. 9:14• ¹⁴{i}And Jehovah hath watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he hath done; and we have not hearkened unto his voice.{/i} (Dan. 9:14)

• His righteousness revealed, and man’s recovery (vers. 23-30). (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)

• If man is to profit by this chastening of God, he must understand its purpose and for this is needed one who can explain it. The word for “messenger” is “angel,” and this suggests a supernatural revealer of the mind of God. This we find frequently throughout the Old Testament, where the “angel” made known the will of God (see Judges 2:1; 13:3, etc.). The “angel of Jehovah” is indeed His representative, so completely so as to be referred to as Jehovah Himself (“The angel of His presence,” Isa. 63:9, etc.). Here we have a suggestion of the Mediator, and this is accentuated by the next word, “an Interpreter,” or “Mediator” (see Gen. 42:23; 2 Chron. 32:21) —one who, as an ambassador, is sent to make known the mind of God. Nor will an ordinary messenger suffice; it must be “one of a thousand” —a phrase reminding us of “the chiefest among ten thousand” (Song 5:10). (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto mand his dutyh;

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Adam. see Ps. 8.4.

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Or "uprightness," i.e. in judging himself.

W. Kelly Translation

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If there be by him a messenger,{HR}An interpreter, one of a thousand,{HR}To declare to man his uprightness;