In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
Ver. 8. In measure.] Heb., Modio i.e., exigua mensura, in a small measure (by peck peck), and as his people are able to bear; 1Co 10:13 ad emendationem, non ad internecionem.
When it shooteth forth.] Or, In the branches; not at the root, as God smiteth at a wicked man, resolving to have him down. See here his different dealing with his own and others. Upon his children he doth but sprinkle a parcel of his wrath, some few sparks of his displeasure, but the wicked he utterly consumeth and burneth up with the fire of his indignation. Isaiah 42:25 ; Isa 66:15
Thou wilt debate with it.] Deiudicabis, will give final judgment, thou wilt put a difference, or "discern between the righteous and the wicked." Mal 3:18
He stayeth his rough wind, &c., ] i.e., Such afflictions as would shake his plants too much, or quite blow them down. But he letteth out of his treasury, even he who "holdeth the winds in his fist," such a wind as shall make them fruitful, and blow away their unkindly blossoms and leaves. a
In the day of the east wind.] That boisterous and blasting and blustering wind, this Euroclydon. Act 27:14
a Dr Godwyn. Flagella tantum quaedam decutiuntur. - Scultet.