Job 33:27-28

27, 28. THE SONG OF THE REDEEMED ONE He singeth unto men and saith,

“I have sinned and perverted that which was right,

And it was not requited unto me:

He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit,

And my life rejoiceth in the light.”

“Openly, before all the people,” (Hirtzel,) he sings his short and comprehensive psalm of gratitude. Its minor note is the miserere of sin, its major note the triumphant view of the light of God’s countenance. Its closing thought is one of beauty; literally. “my [very] life sees in the light.” To see the light was, in the classics also, equivalent to live; while “leaving the light of the sun” was equivalent to death. Comp. the Iliad, Job 18:11. From going into the pit. See note, Job 33:18. His life shall see the light (See above.) The beautiful sentiment of Elihu is among the many of the “Elihu section,” which unexpectedly interweave themselves with the main body of the work; as, for instance, this with Job 10:21-22. See Excursus VI, page 197. Instead of forebodings of darkness, such as tormented Job, (Job 10:21,) the redeemed penitent shall walk in the light. On Job 33:27-28 see a sermon by Tillotson, “The Unprofitableness of Sin in this Life an Argument for Repentance.”