_A.M. 2484. B.C. 1520._ Elihu observes the hand of God in thunder and lightning, Job 37:1; in frost and snow, rain and wind, Job 37:6. Challenges Job to account for these, Job 37:14. Concludes that God is great, and greatly to be feared, Job 37:23; Job 37:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
_At this also my heart trembleth_ These are a few of the works of God; and though there be innumerable more, yet this one single effect of his power strikes terror into me, and makes my heart tremble, as if it would leap out of my body and leave me dead. Elihu continues here his speech, which he had... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hear attentively the noise of his voice_ Or, as ברגז קלו, _berogez kolo_, may properly be rendered, _his voice with trembling._ The thunder is called God's voice, because by it God speaks to the children of men to fear before him: _and the sound that goeth out of his mouth_ That is produced by his... [ Continue Reading ]
_He directeth it_ Namely, his voice, his thunder; _under the whole heaven_ It is heard far and near, for he darts it through the whole region of the air: _and his lightning_, &c. Preceded by terrible, and often most destructive flashes of lightning, which shoot from one end of heaven to the other. _... [ Continue Reading ]
_He saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth_ By his powerful will the snow is formed in the air, and falls upon the earth where and when he sees fit. _And the great rain of his strength_ Those storms of rain which come with great force and irresistible violence. _He sealeth up the hand of every man_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Out of the south_ Hebrew, מן החרד, _min ha-chered:_ εκ ταμειων : _de promptuariis, out of the store-houses_, LXX.; _ab interioribus, from the inner chambers_, Vulgate Latin. The same with _the chambers of the south, Job 9:9_. Or the southern part of the world, so called, because in a great part it... [ Continue Reading ]
_Also by watering_ The earth; by causing the clouds first to receive, and then to convey to distant parts, and afterward to pour forth, abundance of water; _he wearieth the thick clouds_ Alluding to men's being wearied with carrying burdens, travelling, and labour. By filling and burdening them with... [ Continue Reading ]
_Whether for correction_ Hebrew, אם לשׁבשׂ, _im leshebet, whether for a rod_, to scourge or correct men by immoderate showers. The word, however, also means, _a tribe_, for a certain portion of land, which God intends particularly to favour or punish, in that way. _Or for his land _ Hebrew, לארצו _l... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hearken unto this, O Job_, &c. Listen diligently unto these things; do not dispute any more with God, but silently consider these his wonderful works, and think, if there be so much matter of wonder in the most obvious works of God, how wonderful must his secret counsels be. _Dost thou know when Go... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds?_ How God doth, as it were, weigh the clouds in balances; so that, although they are full of water, and heavy, yet they are by his power suspended in the thin air, and kept from falling down upon us in spouts and floods, as sometimes they have done, and g... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hast thou, with him, spread out the sky_ Wast thou his assistant in spreading out the sky, like a canopy, over the earth? _Which is strong_ Which, though it be very thin and transparent, yet is also firm, and compact, and steadfast. _As a molten looking-glass_ Made of brass and steel, as the manner... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shall it be told him that I speak?_ Does he need to be informed of any thing? Is any thing that I have said of him worth his hearing? Will any one report it to him? Will any man dare to approach him? But the Hebrew, אדבר, _adabber_, should rather be rendered, _I should_, or _I will, speak._ Shall I... [ Continue Reading ]
_And now_ Or, for now, as the particle ו, _vau_, is often rendered; the following words containing a reason of those which precede; _men see not the bright light_, &c. Men are not able to look upon the brightness of the sun when it shines in the heavens, after the winds have swept away the clouds wh... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fair weather cometh out of the north_ From the northern winds, which scatter the clouds and clear the sky. Elihu concludes with some short, but great sayings, concerning the glory of God. He speaks abruptly and in haste, because, it should seem, he perceived God was approaching, and presumed he was... [ Continue Reading ]