Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
He is gracious - God. This verse is the apodosis to Job 33:23.
Deliver - literally, redeem: х paada` (H6308) or paadaah (H6299)]: deliver by paying a price [Greek, lutron (G3083), a payment or ransom, used Matthew 20:28, "The Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many"]. In it and "ransom" there is reference to the consideration or price, on account of which God pardons and relieves the sufferers; here it is primarily the intercession of Elihu. But the language is too strong for its full meaning to be exhausted by this. The Holy Spirit has suggested language which receives its full realization only in the "eternal redemption found" by God in the price paid by Jesus Christ for it - i:e., His blood and meritorious intercession (cf. Hebrews 9:12). 'Obtained'-literally, found: implying the earnest zeal, wisdom, and faithfulness of the finder, and the newness and joyousness of the finding. Jesus Christ could not but have found it, but still His seeking it was needed (Bengel). (Luke 15:6; Luke 15:9, "I have found my sheep which was lost ... I have found the piece which I had lost.") God the Father is the finder (Psalms 89:19-20, "Thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One ... I have laid help upon one that is mighty ... I have found David my servant"). Jesus Christ is the Redeemer, to whom He saith, Redeem (so Hebrew) him from going, etc. (2 Corinthians 5:19.) Ransom, х koper (H3724)] - used in a general sense by Elihu, but meant by the Holy Spirit in its strict sense, as applied to Jesus Christ, of a price paid for deliverance (Exodus 21:30, "ransom of His life") - an atonement (i:e., means of setting at one - i:e., reconciling two who are estranged), a covering, as of the ark with pitch, typical of what covers us sinners from wrath (Genesis 6:14, "Pitch it ... with pitch;" cover it with a covering of pitch, not to let the flood of wrath cover it: Hebrew х kaapartaa (H3722) bakoper (H3724)]; Psalms 32:1). The pit is primarily here the grave (Isaiah 38:17. "the pit of corruption"), but the spiritual pit is mainly shadowed forth (Zechariah 9:11, "the pit wherein is no water").