Job 33:22

22 Su alma se acercará al sepulcro, y su vida a los enterradores

Job 33:22 Meaning and Commentary

Job 33:22

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave
Not the soul, strictly and properly speaking, for that does not, nor is it laid in the grave at death, but returns to God that gave it; rather the body, for which it is sometimes put, and of which what is here said is true, see ( Psalms 16:10 ) ; or the person of the sick man, whose disease being so threatening, all hope is gone, and he is given up by his physicians and friends, and seemingly is at the grave's mouth, and that is ready for him, and he on the brink of that; which were the apprehensions Job had of himself, ( Job 17:1 ) ; see ( Psalms 88:3 ) ( 107:17 ) ;

and his life to the destroyers;
the destroying angels, as Aben Ezra, and so the Septuagint version: or destroying diseases, and so Mr. Broughton renders it, "to killing maladies"; or it may be to worms, which destroy the body in the grave, and which Job was sensible of would quickly be his case, ( Job 19:26 ) ; though some interpret it of those that kill, or of those that are dead, with whom they are laid that die; or of deaths corporeal and eternal, and the horrors and terrors of both, with which persons in such circumstances are sometimes distressed.

Job 33:22 In-Context

20 que le hace que su vida aborrezca el pan, y su alma la comida suave

21 Su carne desfallece sin verse, y sus huesos, que antes no se veían, aparecen

22 Su alma se acercará al sepulcro, y su vida a los enterradores

23 Si tuviera cerca de él un mensajero, un intérprete, uno entre mil que mostrare al hombre su rectitud

24 que le diga que Dios tuvo de él misericordia, que lo libró de descender al sepulcro, que halló rescate