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OET (OET-LV) If there_[is] on/upon/above_him/it an_angel a_mediator one of a_thousand to_announce to/for_ʼĀdām/humankind what_is_right_him.
OET (OET-RV) If there’s a messenger who will mediate for them,
⇔ ≈one in a thousand to announce what’s right for them,
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast
אִם
if
Elihu is drawing an implict contrast between the angels of death whom he described in the previous verse and the type of angel he describes in this verse, who helps keep a person from going “down to the pit” (as he says in the next verse). If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate the contrast explicitly in your translation. Alternate translation: “But if”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
מֵלִ֗יץ
mediator
The word translated interpreter is used elsewhere in the Bible to mean someone who translates what someone says in one language into another language, for example, in Genesis 42:23. Here, however, it implicitly means someone who speaks on behalf of another person, not necessarily translating what that person says into another language. Alternate translation: “an advocate” or “a spokesman”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אֶחָ֥ד מִנִּי־אָ֑לֶף
one(ms) out_of a_thousand
Elihu does not necessarily mean that exactly one out of every thousand angels is an interpreter such as he describes. Instead, this expression may mean in a general sense that such angels are rare. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “that rare kind of angel”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
לְהַגִּ֖יד לְאָדָ֣ם יָשְׁרֽוֹ
to=announce to/for=ʼĀdām/humankind what_is_right,him
This could mean: (1) that the angel would declare to a person how he would need to change his actions so that he would be upright or have a right standing with God (his would refer to the person) or so that his actions would conform to God’s uprightness (his would refer to God). Alternate translation: “to declare to a person how he needs to change his actions in order to become upright” (2) that the angel would declare to God on behalf of a person (the word translated to would mean “for”) that the person was upright or had the potential to change his actions and become upright and so did not need to die. Alternate translation: “to declare to God on a person’s behalf that he is upright”
33:23 An angel from heaven would intercede, taking the role of the mediator Job longed for (see 5:1; 9:33-34; 16:18-21).
OET (OET-LV) If there_[is] on/upon/above_him/it an_angel a_mediator one of a_thousand to_announce to/for_ʼĀdām/humankind what_is_right_him.
OET (OET-RV) If there’s a messenger who will mediate for them,
⇔ ≈one in a thousand to announce what’s right for them,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.