He sealdh up the hand Effect of the winter rains and snow on men: all labour in the field is suspended; the hand of man is as it were "sealed up."

that all men may know his work The Heb. must be rendered: that all men whom he hath made may know, lit. all men of his workmanship. The meaning is, that men by their enforced inactivity through His operations in nature may know His sovereign power and that they are subject to it. The sense given by the A. V. is that of some of the ancient Versions, but implies a different reading.

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