17How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
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Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-20)Elihu here addresses himself closely to Job, desiring him to apply what he had hitherto said to himself. He begs that he would hearken to this discourse (Job 37:14), that he would pause awhile: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God . What we hear is not likely to profit us unless we consider it, and we are not likely to consider things fully unless we stand still and compose ourselve…
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