Chap. 37. r4n Expoftionsipon the B:ok of j o B., Yeti. r . 56 text gives anfwer(v.q,) Becaufe 1did bloc, upon it, o; blow it away; that is, I rent out a curie which bla(Ied oil your creature injoy- rnents, and blowed away the comforts and ufal efficacy of them; fo that ye hadonly a filet without a kcrncl,or only skin and bones . without_ the t~:a; ro.v and farnefs of all, !.ny favour and b!eifing. That our cloaths warm ur,a.e well us that oar meat and drink notsrrit tes, is from the blefng o f Clod. Fourthly, When he faith, Knoweg thou how thy garments arc warm ? Note ; Mau cannot give a full account or reafo's of common thing', or of bps dayly comforts andenjoyments. What'smore common than for a man to wear garments ? what then to find his garments warm upon him, or himielf warm in his garments ? and why amans cloaths warm himwe need not go to enquire of a great Philofopher,any rnan,any commonman cangive or alfgn a caufe of ir. Yet there is fome-what in ir beyond natu- ral caufes, which few take any notice of, and none can fufì:ciently or fullyapprehend. Second caufes produce their etfee`fs,^ he tem- perature of the air is a caufe of warmth , and the garments we wear, warm us by excitingand drawing our the congenial warmth within us ; yet Elihu puts on the quefiion further than that,Know- efi thouhow thy garments are warm, wall.; quilla e iterra. when he quieteth the earth with the SouthWind? ptorrsu' qúé_ Or as fome tranfiate, When the earth is quiet by the SouthFYind. trarrfrtrfvè Mr. Broughton reads, when theland io Jfill. The ortgmal is only the tjmieatirm.Pifc. South, when he quieteth the earth, or when the earth is quiet by iälii the South ; that is, when gentle windes or b`iezes blo.v from Mar es theSouthern parts.The word rend red South or South wind,comes g ,ítstio at*a, from a root fignifying an highhabitation,becaufe theSun is higheff good sol ,n ¿%%Q when'tis in the South,thats its Meridian or high both elevation plago aitir and habitation. And as when the Sun cometh into the South, 'ris íra;edzr. in its highefl elevationabove us, fo 'tis hottefi in opperation up- uze 017 us. Ott al, So that, by the South, he meaneth the Spring and Summer time, a:u.ro duxin®t, when the Sunmakes his Southern progrefs. And because ufually a ifirotprceb our garments are warmeff upon us, when the South wind bloweth, ofog Loc. Cc c c there- vide turn.
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