Job 37:1

Strophe d. The thunder storm through its lightnings gleaming even to the ends of the earth, while its thunders roll along the whole heaven pre-eminently speaks of the all-embracing power of God. In declaring the awful greatness of God, it equally displays his goodness, which is the outgoing of his greatness, Job 37:1-5.

1. At this Literally, Because of this, the terror of the approaching storm.

Is moved Literally, Starts up. The same Hebrew word is sometimes used in another form for the sudden leap of the locust.

Leviticus 11:21. The grandeur of the following description of a thunder storm is best seen by comparison with similar descriptions in the classics; for instance, a scene in the Iliad, 7:470-482, in which a storm broke in upon a scene of carousal:

Humble they stood! pale horror seized them all,

While the deep thunder shook the aerial hall.

The reader may be referred to the celebrated but vastly interior description given in the Koran, (Sura 2:18,) the beauty of which is said to have made the poet Lebid a follower of the false prophet.