An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

JOB, Chap. 36. Vers. 27, 28. 27. For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof; 28. Which the clouds do drop, and distil upon man abundantly.

JOB, Chap. 36. Vers. 27, 28. 27. For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof; 28. Which the clouds do drop, and distill upon man abundantly.

Ellihu having showed the greatness of God himself, in the former verse, proceeds to show the greatness of his woks; he had done it before as to Civil Administrations, and the ordering of humane affairs, in casting down and lifting up the sons of men; he doth it now in natural things, or in ordering the motions of nature, still in reference unto man. He describes the greatness of the works of God aloft or above in the Air and in the Clouds, as he had before described the greatness of his works here below on the Earth.

ELlihu having shewed the greatness of God himself, in the former verse, proceeds to shew the greatness of his wo ks; he had done it before as to Civil Administrations, and the ordering of humane affaires, in casting down and lifting up the sons of men; he doth it now in natural things, or in ordering the motions of nature, still in reference unto man. He describes the greatness of the works of God aloft or above in the Aire and in the Clouds, as he had before described the greatness of his works here below on the Earth.

The whole remainder of Elihu's speech in this Chapter and to the end of the 37th, is spent in a philosophical discourse about the Meteors, and those various operations and changes that are wrought in the Air; he discourseth of Rain, of Thunder and Lightning, of Snow and Winds; from all which works of God in Nature, Elihu would convince Job of the Justice and Righteousness of God (as well as of his power) which was his chief purpose. He begins this philosophical Lecture or Lecture of divine Philosophy with the Rain, in the two verses now read; and he mingles much of that matter in this and the following Chapter. He speaks here, I say, of the Rain, which is a dispensation of God usually both very profitable & comfortable; what more profitable or more comfortable than the rain? It is also a dispensation of God sometimes very dreadful and hurtful: The Lord sends the very same Creature upon contrary services, sometimes for good, sometimes for evil; a one time as a blessing, and at another as a curse, to the inhabitants of the earth.