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Job_37:13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
Ver. 13. He causeth it to come, whether for correction] Heb. For a rod, åéò ðáéäåéáí (Sept.). God hath his rods sticking up in every corner of his house for chastisement of his children, and they shall take it for a favour too, Heb_12:7 1Co_11:32. Sinite virgam corripientem, ne sentiatis malleum conterentem, saith Bernard. Be content with the rod of correction, that ye feel not the maul of confusion. Better suffer immoderate rains and lightnings, than that terrible tempest, Job_27:21, and the black flashes of hell fire, that ðõñéöëåãåèùí , as Plato calleth it; the fiery lake, as the Scripture.
Or of his land] i.e. His Church, Hos_9:3. A land that he watereth and watcheth over from one end of the year to the other, Deu_28:12. His vineyard cared for, and kept to himself night and day, Isa_27:3. Or, the earth at large, which is God’s great field, Psa_24:1 (as the Church is his fold, Psa_100:3), and especially that part of it which is desert and uninhabited. There also God causeth his sun to shine, and his rain to fall, Mat_5:45 Job_38:26-27, that the wild beasts also may have food.
Or for mercy] Some singular and extraordinary mercy, as 2Sa_21:10 1Ki_18:45. Sive ad faciendum beneflcentiam; or to bestow his bounty, and to bestow a largess; as princes sometimes make a scatter of monies among the multitude. Clouds are God’s storehouses, which he soon opens to our profit, Deu_28:12; by them he maketh them a scatter of riches upon the earth, which good men gather, and bad men scramble for.