Job 38:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The cloud — When I covered it with vapours and clouds which rise out of the sea, and hover above it, and cover it like a garment. Darkness — Black and dark clouds. Swaddling band — Having compared the sea to a new — born infant, he continues the metaphor, and makes the clouds as swaddling — bands, to keep it within its bounds: though indeed neither clouds, nor air, nor sands, nor shores, can bound the sea, but God alone.