Job 33:29,30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

All these things worketh God All these ways and methods does God take to awaken, convince, and save sinners; oftentimes with man One way with one man, and another with another; or, using these several methods with the same man, trying by various means, one after another, to lead him to repentance, and prepare him for deliverance. To bring back his soul from the pit That he may save men from being for ever miserable, and make them for ever happy. “Lord, what is man, that thou shouldest thus visit him? This should engage us to comply with God's designs, to work with him for our own good, and not to counterwork him. And this will render those that perish inexcusable, that so much was done to save them and they would not be healed.” So Mr. Henry. Excellent words! But utterly irreconcileable with the doctrine of absolute, unconditional predestination.

Job 33:29-30

29 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimesi with man,

30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.