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

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.

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 Aire; 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 dreadfull and hurtfull: The Lord sends the very same Creature upon contrary services, sometimes for good, sometimes for evill; a• one time as a blessing, and at another as a curse, to the inhabitants of the earth.

What Elihu speaks of the Rain in this Chapter, may be reduced to five heads.