The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Ver. 16. The day is thine, the night also is thine] He had argued with God, and strengthened his own faith from God's extraordinary works; and now he doth the like from his ordinary works in nature, with the alternate course thereof, wherein appeareth a kind of image of the seasonable driving away of calamities, and turning all things into a desired state, Psalms 30:5 Lamentations 3:23 .
Thou hast prepared the light and the sun] i.e. That first light scattered abroad the heavens, but afterwards gathered into the sun, as into a vessel. By light some understand here the moon, that other great luminary; it being the manner of the Hebrews, nomen generis restringere ad speciem deteriorem.