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

¹Some render this latter part of the verse not as we, The breadth of the waters is straitened; but, The waters are dissolved into their breadth. As if Elihu had said, the ice or frost being dissolved, the waters return to their wonted latitude. The word rendered straitened, may be derived from a root which signifieth to dissolve, to melt and pour out. Thus, as according to our translation, we take ⟨p. 499⟩the latter part of the verse as an effect of the first, frost being that whereby the breadth of the waters is straitened; so according to this translation, it stands in opposition to the former, By the breath of the Lord frost is given, and he again (by his breath) diss lveth the water. Thawing as well as freezing is from God. Thawing is the melting of the ice; as metal is melted in the fire, so ice is melted by the heat of the Sun. Thus the North makes ice, and the South unmakes or melts it. The power of God is to be seen in dissolving those huge rocks and mountains of ice into water, as well as in congealing those mighty floods o• water into icy rocks. David celebrateth the power of God in this also (Psal. 147.18.) He sendeth out his word, and melteth them (that is, the morsels of ice spoken of vers. 17.) He causeth the wind (a warm thawing wind) to blow, and the waters flow, that i•, those waters which were bound up by the cold, flow away by heat. Some insist much upon this translation. It is of the Lord that the waters are enlarged or straitened, frozen or dissolved. I leave it with the Reader. which to pitch upon (both are safe and honourable to God) and proceed to the next verse.²

¹Some render this latter part of the ve•se not as we, The breadth of the waters is straitned; but, The waters are dissolved into their breadth. As if Elihu had said, the ice or frost being dissolved, the waters return to their wonted latitude. The word rendred straitened, may be derived from a root which signifieth to dissolve, to melt and pour out. Thus, as according to our translation, we take