becauſe the number of thy days ;s great ? k An ironical Queſtion : If thou pretendeſt that thou knoweft theſe things, and canſt readily anſwer theſe Queſtions, how comeſt thou by this knowledge ? Was it from hence becauſe thou waſt born | when I made the World, and that firſt conſtitution of the Light and Darkneſs in that order and ſucceſſion which continues to this | day, and thereby hadſt the opportunity of inſpe&ing my Works, ' and ſeeing whence the Light came, and becauſe thou haſt gained this knowledge by long experience, as having lived ever ſince the Creation of the World until this time? Whereas in truth thou , art but of yeſterday, aud kneweſt nothing, as was ſaid, Chap: 8: 9. But the wordsare and may be otherwite rendred, doſt, or didſt thou know, either by thy own remembrance: or by the information of others, that thou waſt then born ( to wit, when I made the World? Or didſt thou know that vhou fhonldeſt then be born,then,to wit, when thou.
waſt born? Or, dia thou then know,the two Hebrew Particles being ; traniplaced;
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tranſplaced, as 1s not unuſual in that Lancuige,thet then ſhould be born ? How couldſt thon know this when thou hadſt no being? ) ad that the numbcr of thy davs ſhould be great? That thou ſhouldſt live ſo long as thou haſt jived. Thou cou, 4ſt neither foreknow the time of thy Birth nor the length of thy Life. Or, and is the number of thy days great ? i.e. So great that it reacheth to the time ofthe Worlds Creation,
>» Haſt thou entred into the treaſures of the ſnow ? or haſt thou ſeen the treaſures of the hail /. £
{ Dof# thou know where I have laid up thoſe vaſt quantities of Snow and Hail which Idraw forth when I ſee fit ? doſt thou know the cauſes of them,and the way to produce them ? Bur if thou art unacquainted with theſe treaſures, it is intolerable preſumption in thee fo pretend that thou knowelt thoſe treaſures of Wiſdom which Iye hid in my own Breaſt. ;
22 Which » I have reſerved againſt the time of
trouble », againſt the day of battel and war *
mm i.e Which Snow, and eſpecially Hail. « 7.e. When I in« tend to bring trouble or calamity upon any Country or Peopte for their ſins, or for their trials. Or, ag2inft the time of the enemy, 3. e; when I intend to puniſh mine or my Peoples Enemies, and ro fight againſt them with theſe Weapons: Of which ſee inſtances, Exod: 9: 14. Joſ: 10:11: Compare 1 Sam. 7:10; Jos 36; 31: Iſa: 30: 30:
24 By what way o is the light parted p, which ſcatter-
eth the eaſtwind upon the earth q ? | o Noſt thou know all the Cauſes, Means,Methods, and Circum- ſtances of this Work of God ? p Or, d:ſþerſed,or difiributed,to wit, in the Air, or upon the Face of the Earth. By Light he underſtands either 1. the Lightning, which breaks forth ſuddenly out of a Cloud, and with ſtrange {wiftneſs diſperſerh it ſelf, and flieth from Eaſt ro Weſt, as is noted Match: 24; 27. Burt this word Light put by it ſelf, and being underſtood properly, is conſtantly ufed in this Book for the Light of the Sun, and never for the Lightning, and where it is meant of the Lightning,there is ſome other word added to it, as Chap: 37% I5: where it is called the light of his Cloud, And. beſides, he ſpeaks of the Lightning in the next verſe; which were ſuperfluous if it were here mentioned. Or rather, 2. of the light of the Sun, which is commonly called /ig4t without any other word added to it, as Job 3: 4,9,16:& 24: 14:&.25: 3, &c And this light of the Sun, is variouſly parted or diſtributed in the World, ſhining in one place and time, when it doth not ſhine 1n another, or for a longer time, or with greater brightneſs and power and vertue than it doth in another. All whichare the effe&s of God's infinite Wiſe dom and Power, and ſuch as wereout of Job's reach to underſtand, or at the leaſt roeff:&. 9q i. e, Which light ſcatrereth,&c. 7. e. raiſeth the Eatt-wind, and cauſeth it to blow hither and thither upon the Earth. For as the Sunis juſtly called by the Poets,and others,the Fe- ther of he Winds, becaule he draws up thoſe Exbalations which give matter to the Winds, and for other reaſons; fo in particular the Eaſt-wind is oft obſerved to riſe together with the Sun,from which alſo it hath both its Latine and Greek Name. But ſome make this a diſtia& Queſtion from the former, and render the words thus, And | - (repeat, by which way ) the Eaſft-wind (under which all the other | Winds may be comprenended ) ſcatrereth it ſelf upon the Earth, i. e. * Wheace the Winds come, and whither they go, which is mention- ed as a ſecret in Nature, Job 3: 8: and how it comes to paſs that they blow in ſuch ſeveral manners,and with ſuch various and even contrary effe&s, Or thus, and by which way the Eaſt-wind ſcattereth * (to wir, the Clouds, or other light things : for this is noted in Scripture to be a moſt vehement Wind, and to ſcatter the Clouds, Ezoa; 14: 21: Jonah 4: 8:) upon the Earth ; 1. e. Whence it comes to paſs that the Exſt-wind was ſo violent and furious. But the words may be rendred thus, Which (z. e. which light of che Sun, or when it, to wit, this Lighr,) ſcattereth it ſelf ( as divers here render
confeſſed) from (the prefix Mem being underſtood, as it is very fre- quently in the Hebrew Text ) the Eaſt ( for this Hebrew Word doth not only ſignifie the Eaſtern Wind, but alſo. the Eaſt, or the Eaſtern part of the Heavens or Earth, as Ezek: 4c: 19: & 42: 16: Habak: 1: 9. and in many other places, ( anf Kedem, the root of this word is conftantly ſo uted } upon or ever the Ear: b, all over the Exrth, And rhis is juſtly-mentioned as a wonderful! Work of God, That as ſoon as ever the Sun ariſeth, it parteth or 1carrereth its light in an inſtant,from one end of rhe Hemiſphere to anorher : but this I propoſe with ſubmiſſion. :
25 Who bath divided a water-courſe for the overflow- ing of waters r? ora way for the lighting of thun- der s,