Job 11:9
longer.28:24,25; Ps 65:5-8; 139:9,10 Job 28:25
To make the weight, etc.God has given an atmosphere to the earth, which, possessing a certain degree of gravity perfectly suited to the necessities of all animals, vegetables, and fluids, should be the cause, in His hands, of preserving animal and vegetable life; for by it the blood circulates in the veins of animals, and the juices in the tubes of vegetables. Without this atmospheric pressure there could be no respiration; and the elasticity of the particles of air in animal and vegetable bodies, would rupture the vessels in which they are contained, and destroy both kinds of life. Ps 135:7; Isa 40:12he weigheth.He has exactly proportioned the aqueous surface of the earth to the terrene parts, for the purpose of evaporation, etc. Proverbs 8:27
he prepared.Ps 33:6; 103:19; 136:5; Jer 10:12; Col 1:16; Heb 1:2compass. or, circle.Isa 40:11,22 Isaiah 40:12
measured.48:13; Job 11:7-9; 38:4-11; Ps 102:25,26; 104:2,3; Pr 8:26-28; 30:4Heb 1:10-12; Re 20:11measure. Heb. tierce. weighed.Job 28:25 Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth. or, Him that sitteth, etc.19:1; 66:1; Ps 2:4; 29:10; 68:33the inhabitants.15,17; Nu 13:33stretcheth.42:5; 44:24; 51:13; Job 9:8; 37:18; 38:4-9; Ps 102:25,26; 104:2Jer 10:12; Zec 12:1; Heb 1:10-12as a curtain.Or, "as a thin veil," as Bp. Lowth renders; which he illustrates by the following passage from Dr. Shaw. "It is usual in the summer season, and upon all occasions when a large company is to be received, to have the court sheltered from heat, or inclemency of the weather by a {velum,} umbrella, or veil, as I shall call it; which, being expanded on ropes from one end of the parapet to the other, may be folded or unfolded at pleasure. The Psalmist seems to allude to some covering of this kind, in that beautiful expression of spreading out the heavens as a curtain."
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