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

At this, that is, by reason of this, or for this cause, or because of this; so the word is rendered (Gen. 2.23.) She (said Adam of his wife, or Second-self) shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. So here, at this, or for this cause, my heart trembleth. It may here be questioned, what it was at which the heart of Elihu trembled? I shall give a double answer to that query.

At this, that is, by reason of this, or for this cause, or because of this; so the word is rendred (Gen. 2.23.) She (said Adam of his wife, or Second-self) shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. So here, at this, or for this cause, my heart trembleth. It may here be questioned, what it was at which the heart of Elihu trembled? I shall give a double answer to that querie.

First, Some conceive that while Elihu was speaking about, or about to speak further of that marvellous work of God, the Thunder, God, to confirm what he had said, or should say, at that very instant caused it to thunder, that so Job might be in a more humble reverential frame, and so the better prepared to receive what Elihu had further to say unto him. That there was a storm at or about that time, may appear from the first verse of the 38th Chapter; then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said; and we find that God hath often given great discoveries of himself in or by Thunder and Lightning. In Thunder and Lightning the Law was delivered to Moses on mount Sinai (Exod. 19.6.) And to affect the people of Israel, when they had provoked God by their peremptory and discontented way of asking a King, Samuel coming to deal with them about it (1 Sam. 12.16, 17, 18.) said, Stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes. Is it not wheat-harvest to day? I will call unto the Lord, and he shall send Thunder and Rain, that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great. And the Lord sent Thunder and Rain that day, even while Samuel was speaking, for their conviction and humiliation, as the next words show, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. Thus possibly while Elihu was about to speak of Thunder, for the humbling of Job, God commanded it to Thunder for his deeper humiliation: and if so, the cause why Elihu trembled is apparent enough; The terrible Thunder-claps