Job 33:17

17 to turn human beings aside [from their] deeds, and he keeps man from pride.

Job 33:17 Meaning and Commentary

Job 33:17

That he may withdraw a man [from his] purpose
Or "work" {m}, his wicked work, as the Targum; either which he has begun upon, or which he designed to do. Thus Abimelech and Laban were restrained from their intentions by a divine admonition in a dream, the one from taking Abraham's wife, as he intended, and the other from doing harm to Jacob, which he designed:

and hide pride from man;
by pardoning his sins, in which there is always pride, so some; pardon of sin being expressed by covering it, ( Psalms 32:1 ) ; or rather by repressing, weakening, and preventing it; and that by not suffering vain and proud men to perform their enterprises, but obliging them to submit to the will of God, and humble themselves under his mighty hand. These are the ends proposed, and which are effected through the Lord speaking to men in dreams, opening their ears, and sending instructions to them; and others also for their good follow.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (hvem) "opere", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus

Job 33:17 In-Context

15 "In a dream, a vision of [the] night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on [their] bed,

16 then he opens [the] ear of men, and {he frightens them with a warning}

17 to turn human beings aside [from their] deeds, and he keeps man from pride.

18 He spares his life from [the] pit and his life from passing over the river [of death].

19 "And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even [with] the strife of his bones continually,