Chap. 37 eAu Eipolitr'on upankhe Jookof J e B. Verfs 17 , 5 57 e opinion of tb . Verf. 17. How thy garments are ia.- . equicteth theearth by the Southwind ? So we are to refume that part of the queflion out of the former verfe, though not expref ed here. Asthere he faid expretly, 'Voß' thou knowwhen God difpofed them ? deft thou know the úallancngorf the Cloud; ? So here he faith icnpliedly, IV know thy garments are warm ? Some make this and the former verfe one entire fentence, quite leaving out thole words, Doff thou know, in the latter part ; pàf those know the ballancing of theClouds, © thou whofejarments are warm upon thee, when theearth is quieted by the South w od ? Haft thou, with him, fpread out the Sky, which ss /prong, and as amolten lookingglajs ? The meaning of which reading is briefly this ; O those, who cant not bear thy clothes in a hot day, but art forced to leave thy labour, and retire to thy reU, when the earth is quieted, the Sun beingfar attended to the South (that's the time of heat) pidit thou,with him,fpread out the Skse, which is flrong as amolten looting-glajs ? Didft thou work in the Furnace, or in that fiery heat with God, when hedid,as it were, like amighty Foun- der, cat} the whole Heavens into that glorious mould, or form, in which they appear and feem tomove ? Thewords are an allufion to thofeArtifiswho work in Mettals,and cats them into Veffels of one fort and fine or another,for the feveral ufes tat fervices of man: Such a thing is the Skieover us, which is therefore here compared to amolten looking-glafs, that is, to a glafs made of molten rnettal. Thus, I fay, kale read the context as one entire fentence, and there is acicarnefs in it. But I !hall keep to our own reading,and fo we have two di(linet queftions; Deft thou know how thy garments atewarm ? flan thou, with him, fpread out the Skie ? Pro `I Ú' I begin with she fir{!, po thou know zit Exod. Hew thygarments are warm ? 34' ia. Canfl thou give onaccount of that fudden change, whence it is that the South wind ceafing to raise formes in the earth, there fhould prefently fucceed fuck fervent heat, that thou art not able to bear thy own ordinary clothes ? The text is, that, or how it coweth topafs, that thy garments are warm. As if Elihu had had,
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