Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave - That is, he himself does, for the word soul is often used to denote self.
And his life to the destroyers - - lammitiym . literally, "to those causing death." The interpretation commonly given of this is, "the angels of death" who were supposed to come to close human life; compare II Samuel 24:16-17. But it probably refers to diseases and pangs as having power to terminate life, and being the cause of the close of life. The meaning is, that the afflicted man comes very near to those acute sufferings which terminate life, and which by personification are here represented as the authors of death.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Job 33:22:
Job 33:14
Job 33:29
Job 35:10
Psalms 16:10
Daniel 4:37
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