stretch forth clouds as his tent. 30And lighten with his light from aboue, he shal couer also the ends of the sea. 31 For by these he iudgeth peoples, and giueth victuals to manie mortal men. 32In his hands [1] he hideth the light, & commandeth it that it come agayne. 33He sheweth his freind therof, that it is his possession, and that he may ascend to it.
CHAP. XXXVII.
VPON [2] this my hart is sore afrayd, and is moued out of his place. 2Heare ye his speach in the terrour of his voice, and the sound proceeding out of his mouth. 3Vnder al the heauens he considereth, and his light is vpon the ends of the earth. 4After him shal sounding roare, he shal thunder with the voice of his greatnes, and shal not be found out when his voice shal be heard. 5God shal thunder in his voice meruelously, he that doeth great & vnsearcheable things. 6He that commandeth the snow to descend vpon the earth, and the winter raines, and the shower of his strength. 7He that signeth in the hand of al men, that euerie one may know his works. 8The beast shal enter into his couert, and shal abide in his denne. 9From the inner parts shal a tempest come forth, & cold from [3] Arcturus. 10When God bloweth frost congealeth, and againe waters are powred most largely. 11Corne desireth clouds, & the clouds spread their light. 12Which goe round about, whither-soeuer the wil of [4] the gouerner shal lead them, to al that he shal command them vpon the face of the whole earth. 13Whether in one tribe or in his land, or in what place soeuer of his mercy he shal command them to be found. 14Harken to these things Iob: stand, and consider the maruels of God. 15Doest thou know when God commanded the raines, that they shew the light of his clouds? 16Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect knowledges? 17Are not thy garments hote, when the earth shal be blowen with the South winde? 18Thou perhaps madst the heauens with him, which are most sound, cast as it were of brasse. 19Shew vs what we may say to him: for we are wrapped in darkenes. 20Who shal tel him the things that I speake? yea if man shal speake, he shal be deuoured. 21But now they see not the light: sodainly the ayre shal be thickned into clouds, and the wind passing by shal driue them away. 22From the North gold commeth, & toward God [5] feareful praysing. 23We can not find him worthily: great of strength, and iudge-
- ↑ Christ will giue the glorious light of heauen, which now is hidden to men that lost terristrial paradise. ibidom.c. 12.
- ↑ Consideration of heauenly rewards mentioned in the end of the former chapter, comforteth the afflicted: but thunder and other meteors being figures of Gods iudgement, strike the hart with terrour.
- ↑ North wind or north pole.
- ↑ God directeth the clouds in the ayre, as a master mariner gouerneth a ship.
- ↑ Man not able to praise God sufficiently, prayseth him with feare.
