gctber, and bind the ewe closer to one are? If Job oa.nnot oommand the olo11d11 11.notber. Or loo■e the ba.nd1 of Orion I The ~uch ~css can he send (or rather,send/orlh) identit)· of Klsil with Orion ie generally hghtmngs-those marvellous and terrible ellowE'd. Job is aekcd if he oan loosen the ev:idences of almighty power. E~n now, tie which unitee the several members of with a.ll our command of electrio1ty, our this constell&tion together. Of oour■ e, he Mvante would, from the best electrical ma- can p!'('tend to no euoh powers. chine, find it difficult to produce the effects Yer. 32.---Canat thou bring forth Kaaa- which often result from a single flaeh of roth in hill aeuon I The context implies lightning. that "M&zzaroth" is a constellation on a Ver. 86.-Who bath put wisdom in the pRr 'With the Pleiades, Orion, and the Bear inward parts 1 Some refer this to human (Kimah, Ktsil., and '.Atsh). This makes it wisdom, and understand the Almighty as imJ)OSllib)e to eooept the meaning, eo gene- askmg-Who h!U! put man's wisdom into his rally =gned, of "the twelve signs of the in ward parts? literally, into his kidneyB, or, Zodiao." Again, the plurel form is fatal to as our idiom would express it, " into his the conjecture that "Mazzaroth" deeignates heart." But there is great difficulty in a single st.a.r or planet, BS Jupiter, Venus, supposing a sudden transition from clouds or Sirius (Cook). The word is derived pro- and lightning in vers. 84, 85 to the human bably from the root zaha,-, "to shine," "to understanding in ver. 86, with a retun, w be bright," and should designate some es- cwuds and ,-ain in ver. 87. Hence many pecially brilliant cluster of stare. Whether of the best critics under■tand ver. 86 of the it is to be regarded as a variant of Maua- purpose and intelligence the.t me.y be re- /,0t.h (2 Kings :niii. 5) ie uncertain. Or garded as existing in the clouds and rain oaut thou guide Arotnrns with his 1111m t and lightning themselves, which are God'■ (On the identity of 'Ash or '.Aish with the ministers, and run to and fro at bis com- Great Bear, Ne the comment on oh. ix. 9.) mand, and execute his pleasure. (Bo Schul- The "sone" of 'Aieh are conjectured to be tens, Rosenmiiller, Professor Lee, and Pro- the three large stare in the tail of Urea fessor Stanley Leatbes.) To obtain this Major (Stanley Leathes); but the grounds result, we must translate the word niml!l on which the oonjecture reets e.re very by "tempest" or "thunder-bolts," e.ncl the slight. word 't:l2', in the next clause, by "storm" Yer. 33.-Xnowest thou the ordinanoes of or something simile.r (see the Revi.l!ed Ver- heaven 1 ,.e. the physical laws by which sion, where "dark clouds" is suggested as the course of nature is governed ( comp. an alternative for " inward parts," and Ps. crix. 90, 91; crlviii 6). The general " meteor" e.e an alternative for " heart"). prevalence of law in the material world is The whole paeso.ge will then run thus: Who quite BS strongly BSserted by tlie 11&.Cred hath put wudom in the thunderbolts f or toho writer■ BB by modern science. The dufer- hath given understanding tc, the tempest f enoo is that modern science regards the Ver. 37.-Who oe.n number the olonds in laws e.s physical necessities, self-subsisting, wisdom 1 i.e. Who is wise enough to number while Scripture looks upon them e.e the the clouds, and say how m,my they are? ordinances of the Divine will This latter Or who oe.n Btay the bottles of bee.van 1 view involves, of course, the further result rather, Who can pou,- out t (see the Revised that the Divine will cau at any time sus- Vel'8ion). The "bottles," or "water-skins," pend or reverse any of its enactments. Ca.n■t of heaven are the dense clouds heavy with thou sst the dominion thereof in the earth 1 re.in, which alternately hold the moisture If Job does not even know the laws whereby like e. reservoir, and pour it out upon the the world is governed, much Ieee can he earth. God alone can determine when the est.ablish such le.we himself, "nd make them rain shall fa! 1. work. Ver. 88.- When the dnBt groweth into Yer. 84c,--(lan.st thou lift np thy voice to hardneH. 'Aphar (ii;,)f) here, as often, the olonda, that abundanoe of water may me11ue "earth," or "soil," rather than "duet." oover thee 1 Will the clouds take their When by the beat of the sun's re.ye the orders from thee, listen to thee, obey thy ground grows into hardness, and the olods voice ? None but the " medicine-men " of oleave fast together, baked into a compact savage trihell profese to have any such power. mass, then is the time when re.in is most Elijab, indeed, "prayed, end the heaven needed, and when the Almighty in his gave rain" (JBS. v. 18); but this was a very mercy commonly sends it. The considera- different thing from "commanding the clouds tion of inanimate nature here ends, with of ht:even." Hi.I prayer we.s addressed to the result that its mysteries altogether God, and God gave ihe re.in for which he transcend the human intellect, ancl render me.de his petition. speculation on the still deeper mysteries of Ver. &i.-Ca.mt thou 181Ui lightmings, that the moral world wholly vain and futile,' they may go, &1111 u.y unto thee, S:ere we Ver. 39.-Wilt thou hunt the prey for the an. x:txvm. 1-41.] THE BOOK OF JOB. 613
lion, A new dcpnrture. Oh. xxxix. should the ravens : for they neither sow nor reap; commence from thie point. What does Job which neither he.ve etorehouee nor ham; know of the hobite and inetinote of onimale? and God feedeth them"). God's mercy is Con he orronge so that the lion (rather, "over e.11 his works," not only over those lioness) sholl obtain ite propAr prey, nnd whereof man sees the utility; but e.lso over thus fill the appetite-or, sati,fy the appelite beaets of prey, and birds thought to be or (Revised Version )-of the young lions, which ill omen. Especie.lly he ce.res for the young depend on their dnm? Certainly not. "The of each kind, which most need protection. lions, rooring after their prey, do seek their When his young ones ory unto God. So Ps. meat/rom God" (Ps. oiv. 21). cxlvii. 9, "He givetl1 to the beast hie food, Ver. 40.-When they oouoh in their dena, and to the young raTJena which cry." The and abide in the covert to lie in wait (comp. young re.vens ore driven to cry out, when Ps. x. 9, 10; xvii. 12). they, i.e. the parent birds, wander for lack Ver. 41.-Who provideth for the raven of meat, and have a difficulty in finding it. hi• food 1 (oomp. Luke xii. 24, "Consider