Verse 7
7. Sealeth up That is, through storms and cold. He compels men to cease from rural labours, that they who are his work (literally, all men of his work) may be led to reflect upon Him and his ways, “that every man may know his own weakness,” (Septuagint.) A Persian poet (Saadi) has aptly said of the green leaves of the forest,
In the eye of the intelligent,
Every single leaf, is a book of knowledge evincing a creator.
AEschylus uses a like phrase, “the sealing up of thunder,” for restraining it. ( Eumen., 830.) Dr. T. Lewis refers to the magnificent description of a thunder storm in Psalms 29:0, as witnessed from the sheltering temple, whilst at every thunder peal “every one in His temple (Job 37:9) is crying ‘Glory!’” ( אמר כבוד .) Similarly, a sheltering home should lead to a like grateful recognition of God, as “he doth fly upon the wings of the wind,” letting loose the forces of nature, and controlling, while intensifying, their power. Palmistry the art of divining one’s fate by inspecting the lines and lineaments of the hand founded its foolish pretensions upon a false reading of this passage, making it to mean that God has sealed upon every man’s hand how long he shall live. See WEMYSS on Job, p. 300.
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