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

The very beast of the field give notice of the vapour. The Hebrew is that which goeth up, ¹so we read in the margin. The rain comes down, and the vapours go up; and the going up of the vapour is an argument of the coming down of the rain. As the noise or thunder in the Clouds sore-showeth a storm, so the cattle concerning the vapour, they tell us the rain is coming down by their apprehension of the vapour which goeth up.

The very beast of the field give notice of the vapour. The Hebrew is that which goeth up, ¹so we read in the margin. The rain comes down, and the vapours go up; and the going up of the vapour is an argument of the coming down of the rain. As the noise or thunder in the Clouds sore-sheweth a storm, so the cattel concerning the vapour, they tell us the rain is coming down by their apprehenson of the vapour which goeth up.

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Some render, not vapour, but plants or herbs, trees or grass, these go up or ascend out of the earth, as well as vapours. Our translation is plain. The cattle also, the very sheep and oxen, yea the fowls of the air will tell when we shall have foul weather; before such storms come usually they run to shelter, hiding and shifting for themselves as well as they can, against the storm. Cattle presage rain. ¹Pliny in his Natural History speaks much of the natural sagacity that is in beasts, swine, sheep and oxen, whereby they perceive change of weather. The Poet Virgil also verifies largely and accurately of these things; reporting how husbandmen that keep cattle will gather by what they see in the cattle what the weather will be. The cattle also concerning the vapour.