"3. He beholdeth under all the heavens," (he is seen under all the heavens?) "and his _light is upon the ends of the earth_. "4. After it a NOISE SHALL ROAR, he shall thunder with the voice of his majesty, and shall not be found out when his voice shall be heard." The King James version says, "And he will not stay them when his voice is heard." "5. God shall _thunder wonderfully_ with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things." Here, probably, are more allusions to the awful noises made by the comet as it entered our atmosphere, referred to by Hesiod, the Russian legends, etc. {p. 307} "6. _He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth_, and _the winter rain_ and the shower of his strength "--("the _great rain of his strength_," says the King James version). "7. He sealeth up the hand of every man." This means, says one commentator, that "he confines men within doors" by these great rains. Instead of houses we infer it to mean "the caves of the earth," already spoken of, (chap. xxx, v. 6,) and this is rendered more evident by the next verse: "8. And _the beast shall go into his covert_ and shall _abide in his den_. "9. Out of the inner parts" (meaning the south, say the commentators and the King James version) "_shall tempest come_, and _cold out of the north_. "10. When God bloweth, there cometh _frost_, and _again the waters are poured forth abundantly_." The King James version continues: "11. Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud." That is to say, the cloud is gradually dissipated by dropping its moisture in snow and rain. "12. And it is turned round about by his counsels that they may do whatsoever be commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. "13. He causeth it to come, whether for _correction_, or for his land, or for mercy." There can be no mistaking all this. It refers to no ordinary events. The statement is continuous. God, we are told, will call Job out from his narrow-mouthed cave, and once more give him plenty of food. There has been a great tribulation. The sun has sucked up the seas, they have fallen in great floods; the thick clouds have covered the face of the sun; great noises prevail; there is a great light, and after it a roaring noise; the snow {p. 308} falls on the earth, with winter rains, (cold rains,) and great rains; men climb down ropes into deep shafts or pits; they are sealed up, and beasts are driven to their dens and stay there: there are great cold and frost, and more floods; then the continual rains dissipate the clouds. "19. Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we can not order our speech _by reason of darkness_. "20. Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man speak, surely _he shall be swallowed up?_" And then God talks to Job, (chap. xxxviii,) and tells him "to gird up his loins like a man and answer him." He says: "8. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb?