Chap. 38. flnExpof:ttonupon the Boekof J oB. Verf,;4. 2 59 pear at his call, and prefently to empty thernfelves and pour our their waters according to his dire&tron, upon any cbaec or quarter of the earth. The text is ungular, Covofi thou lift up thy voice to the cloud ? canti thou lift up thy voice to any one of them, as it were by name ? We render it plurally,Canff thou lift up thy voice to the clouds', to any one, or co all of them? That (as it followeth) abundance of waters may cover thee. M if the Lord had faid ; If I lift up my voice to the clouds, they prefently dilfolve and melt, and abundance of waters flow down to cover man and beaft ; to cover the fields, the corn, the grafs; nor is it any marvel, if the clouds, thole thin, and, upon the matter, liquid bodies, melt and flow down at the voice of God, whenas at his voice the mountains flow down, and the rocks themfelves, even the hardefi rocks are melted into waters, or give forth abundance of water (Nuns. 20. 8.) Eliphaz, laid to fob,at the 22.Chap. of this book, and the r r.Verf. Abundance of waterscover thee. The wórds a e the fame there and here, but the fence is veryditfe-ent; Eliphaz meant it there, of me- taphorical waters, the waters of affli&ion, withwhich God co-; vered, yea, almofi over- whelmed and drowned job ; But the Lord fpeaks here of natural waters. fob could not call to the clouds, and get abundanceof thole waters to cover him, nor was he able in a way of command toget one drop of water from the clouds. The words are plain, and the fcope of them obvious, even to convince Job yet further of his inability and frailty ; or that he ought to leave God to the government of the world, to the government of Perlons, Families, and Nations, for as much as himfelf was not able to govern a cloud, nor to order out the leali (hoúer of rain. Hence Note; Manbah no abfolate or foveraign, power ever any ereature. Clouds will not be commanded, cannot be commanded, by the greare(i and mightief+ of the fous of men. 'fob was a great Prince himfelf, yet he could nor, neither can the greatefi P. inces of the world command a tloower nor a drop of rain to fall from the heavens. Man Cannot command the cicuds ro rain, either when he will, or where he will, or how much he will ; there L I a powers
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