How thy garments [are] warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south [wind]?
Ver. 17. How thy garments are warm, when he, &c.] Canst thou give a reason of the extreme heat that is about the summer solstice, when the warm south winds blow so gently, that they are scarce felt at all, and thy clothes heated by thy body are a burden to thee, so that thou art ready to cast them off, and, but for common honesty, thou couldst go naked? Brentius thinks, that although one of the winds only is here instanced, yet the disposing of them all is intended; wherein much of God may be seen; for it is he alone who holdeth them in his fist, hideth them in his treasures, sendeth them out as his posts, rideth upon them, as his chariot, 2Sa 22:10 Psalms 104:3, checks them at his pleasure (whence they concluded Christ's Deity, Mat 8:27), makes them pace orderly, appointing them their motion, &c., Job 28:24,27 Nos motum sentimus, modum nescimus. John 3:8, Thou hearest the sound of the wind, but knowest not whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth. Now if in these common matters men are so blind, how much more in the deep judgments of the Most High.