11-13. How the thunderclouds are dispersed, or else employed by God,
either for correction or mercy.
by watering--by loading it with water.
wearieth--burdeneth it, so that it falls in rain; thus
"wearieth" answers to the parallel "scattereth" (compare, see on
Job 37:9);
a clear sky resulting alike from both.
bright cloud--literally, "cloud of his light," that is, of His
lightning. UMBREIT for "watering," &c., translates;
"Brightness drives away the clouds, His light
scattereth the thick clouds"; the
parallelism is thus good, but the Hebrew hardly sanctions it.
JFB.
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