Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud,.... By filling it with a multitude of water, it is as it were loaded and made weary with it; and especially by sending it about thus loaded from place to place before discharged, when it becomes as a weary traveller; and then by letting down the water in it, whereby it spends itself like one that is weary; an emblem of ministers that spend and are spent for the good of men: some render it by serenity or fair weather, and so Mr.
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Job 37:11
Job 37:11
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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and all the changes of the weather: if, in those changes, we submit to
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are the subject of a great deal of our common talk and observation; but
how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu does here,…Job 37:11Job 37:11 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgehe wearieth: Job 36:27-28
he scattereth: Job 36:30, Job 36:32; Isaiah 18:4; Matthew 17:5
his bright cloud: Heb. the cloud of his lightJob 37:11Job 37:11 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bibleor who can stay the bottles of heaven? or "barrels", as Mr. Broughton; the clouds in which the rain is bottled or barrelled up; and when it is the pleasure of God to pour them out, who can stay, stop, or restrain them?…