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

Elihu, I say, having made this little diversion, or digression (as he had done sometimes before) to cool and calm the spirit of Job, he returns to his former matter, in these words, and considers further the works of God, in those higher Regions, the Aerial heavens, how he muffles up, and covers the light, and how he unveils and opens it again by his own power, and according to the pleasure of his will. The words are plain, according to our translation; I shall open them briefly as they are here set down, and then give out a further reading of them, which raises the scope and intendment of Elihu yet higher.

Elihu, I say, having made this little diversion, or digression (as he had done sometimes before) to coole and calme the spirit of Job, he returns to his former matter, in these words, and considers further the works of God, in those higher Regions, the Aireal heavens, how he muffles up, and covers the light, and how he unvailes and opens it again by his own power, and according to the pleasure of his will. The words are plain, according to our translation; I shall open them breifly as they are here set down, and then give out a further reading of them, which raises the scope and intendment of Elihu yet higher.

Vers. 21. And now men see not the bright light which is in the Clouds.

And now. Some have conjectured, that at this very instant of time while Elihu was discoursing, there happened a sudden change in the Air, or in the face of the Heavens; therefore he saith, and now, do not the heavens grow dark, so that men cannot see the b•ight light which is in the Clouds? as if here were a preparation to that Whirlwind or Tempest, out of which God himself is said to speak to Job, at the beginning of the next chapter.