Thirdly, I conclude our own translation most suitable both to the Original text, and to the scope of this whole Chapter. Now, according to our rendering, the word comes from a root which signifieth to set a thing right or strait, and from that a person who is right, a man of a right spirit, who squares and orders his actions by a right rule, and to a right end, is expressed (Chap. 1.1.) where Jobs character is given by this word, A man perfect and right, we say, upright, that is, a man that hath right aims, and walks by a right rule. Moses (Deut. 32.15.) calls the people of God (collectively as one man) Jeshuru•, that is, a people that are or should be right and upright with God. Thus here, he directeth it, that is, God doth, as it were, by a strait line, level or take his aim, when he dischargeth the Thunder in the Cloud: As he that dischargeth his gun, small or great, or shoots an arrow, levels and directs it at a mark, so the Lord directeth it. What is this it? 'Tis ⟨p. 449⟩plain, by what followeth in the latter part of the verse, where the Lightning is expressly mentioned, that he means the Thunder or the Thunder-bolt, for the Clouds are, in that case, charged with bolts: we have had many dreadful instances, as well in ancient Histories, as in our own time, of Thunder-bolts like Bullets shot from the Clouds. As if Elihu had said, whither-soever the Thunder-bolt goeth, to what quarter of the world soever 'tis designed, it receives commission and direction from God, what to do, and where to fall, whom it shall smite, or what mark it shall hit; He directeth it under the whole heaven, And his Lightning to the ends of the earth.
Thirdly, I conclude our own translation most suitable both to the Original text, and to the scope of this whole Chapter. Now, according to our rendring, the word comes from a root which signifieth to set a thing right or strait, and from that a person who is right, a man of a right spirit, who squares and orders his actions by a right rule, and to a right end, is expressed (Chap. 1.1.) where Jobs character is given by this word, A man perfect and right, we say, upright, that is, a man that hath right aimes, and walkes by a right rule. Moses (Deut. 32.15.) calls the people of God (collectively as one man) Jeshuru•, that is, a people that are or should be right and upright with God. Thus here, he directeth it, that is, God doth, as it were, by a strait line, level or take his aim, when he dischargeth the Thunder in the Cloud: As he that dischargeth his gun, small or great, or shoots an arrow, levels and directs it at a mark, so the Lord directeth it. What is this it? 'Tis ⟨p. 449⟩plain, by what followeth in the latter part of the verse, where the Lightning is expresly mentioned, that he meanes the Thunder or the Thunder-bolt, for the Clouds are, in that case, charged with bolts: we have had many dreadful instances, as well in ancient Histories, as in our own time, of Thunder-bolts like Bullets shot from the Clouds. As if Elihu had said, whither-soever the Thunder-bolt goeth, to what quarter of the world soever 'tis designed, it receives commission and direction from God, what to do, and where to fall, whom it shall smite, or what mark it shall hit; He directeth it under the whole heaven, And his Lightning to the ends of the earth.
