Job 37:1
_ELIHU GOES ON TO SET FORTH THE GREATNESS AND WISDOM OF THE WORKS OF GOD._ _Before Christ 1645._... [ Continue Reading ]
_ELIHU GOES ON TO SET FORTH THE GREATNESS AND WISDOM OF THE WORKS OF GOD._ _Before Christ 1645._... [ Continue Reading ]
HE DIRECTETH IT UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN— _Its flash is beneath the whole heavens, and its blaze unto the ends of the earth._ Schultens and Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKEWISE TO THE SMALL RAIN— _And to the rain dropped plentifully, and to the storms of rain, Be ye violent._ The meaning of the next verse is, that, through the violent storm here mentioned, a stop is put to all the labours of man. By the same storm, Job 37:8 the wild beasts are driven into their de... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN— _By the breath of God he giveth ice, and he swelleth the waters by the thaw:_ Job 37:11. _Fair weather also disperseth the cloud; his sun scattereth the cloud abroad;_ Job 37:12. _This also_ [_the sun_] _by his wisdom performeth its revolution, that men may execu... [ Continue Reading ]
HE CAUSETH IT TO COME— See chap. Job 38:23. It seems to me not improbable, says Bp. Sherlock, that these reflections arose from the methods made use of by Providence (not worn out of memory in the time of the writer of this book) in punishing the old world, in consequence of the purse laid upon the... [ Continue Reading ]
DOST THOU KNOW WHEN GOD DISPOSED THEM— _Dost thou know when God fixed his curb upon them, and caused,_ &c.? See Schultens and Heath. This passage is by Grotius, and many other learned commentators, supposed to refer to the rainbow; when God laid his commands on the elements that they should no more... [ Continue Reading ]
DOST THOU KNOW THE BALANCINGS OF THE CLOUDS, &C.— _Art thou acquainted with the balance of the atmosphere, the wonders of perfect wisdom?_ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
TEACH US WHAT WE SHALL SAY— The author here gives us an evident proof of his great skill in the management of the drama, as he by degrees prepares us for the appearance of the Almighty. His awful harbingers, the thunder and lightning, at a distance had announced his coming. Elihu then _trembled, and... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WILL NOT AFFLICT— _He oppresseth not._ Heath. _He will not be controuled._ Houb. The words _wise of heart,_ at the end of the next verse, may be rendered, _wise in their own conceit._ It is a sarcasm of the same kind with that in the 4th verse of the former chapter. Mr. Peters thinks that our tra... [ Continue Reading ]