Job 37:15

Third division AN APPLICATION TO JOB OF THE PRECEDING DISCOURSES. THE FOLLY OF CONTENDING WITH GOD, OR OF STRIVING TO GRASP THE MYSTERY OF SUFFERING WHILE THE MYSTERIES OF GOD’S WORKING IN NATURE REMAIN UNEXPLAINED, Job 37:14-24.

a. He who presumes to arraign God in judgment, (compare Job 37:19 with Job 13:18; Job 23:4,) and cannot account for the simplest of his doings except to admit that they are, may with reason fear that such blindness of mind will transform itself into a fool-headedness of action which will bring down swift destruction, Job 37:14-20.

15. When Others, how. The most satisfactory reading is that of Heiligstedt: “ Knowst thou how God imposed [laws] upon them; how he did, that these wonders should arise; for instance, how the light streams forth from out the dark cloud.”