Job 36:27

27. Maketh small Rather, draweth up; exhaleth ( Dr. Clarke) through the process of evaporation.

According to the vapour thereof Through his vapour-cloud, (Furst,) or from its vapour, (Gesenius,) which Dr. T. Lewis renders in place of mist, in allusion to Genesis 2:6. Science still uses the same term “vapour-cloud” to designate the mysterious birthplace of the rain. The ancients looked upon rain not only as coming from their deity, ( Aratus,) but as the special gift of God. ( Herodotus, Job 2:13.) The Talmud (in Taanith, ch. i) records an ancient saying of the Jews, that there be three keys which God hath reserved in his own hand, and hath not delivered to any minister or substitute, namely, the keys of life, and of rain, and of the resurrection of the dead. See notes on Job 5:10-11; Job 26:8.

Man abundantly Or the multitude of men, so widespread is the fall of rain.