Job 26:13

by his spirit he hath garnished Rather as above. The reference is to the clearing away of storm clouds, that darken the heavens, by the breath of God.

hath formed Rather as above, pierceth. The words express the half poetical, half mythological conception that the darkening in storm or in eclipse of the heavenly bodies was caused by the Dragon swallowing them up. See on ch. Job 3:8; Job 7:12. There is no reason to identify the swift or fleeing serpent with the constellationof the Dragon. Comp. Isaiah 27:1, with Mr Cheyne's excellent note.