On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
Rather, 'To the north.'
Work. God's glorious works are especially seen toward the northern region of the sky by one in the northern hemisphere. The antithesis is between God working, and yet not being beheld: as in Job 9:11, between "He goeth by," and "I see Him not." The parallelism to the second clause leads Umbreit to translate, doth hide himself; but then the antithesis to behold would be lost; and the Hebrew х `aasaah (H6213)] means rather, as the English version, "doth work;" literally, 'In His working.'
Right hand - `in the south.'
Hideth - appropriately of the unexplored south, then regarded as uninhabitable through heat (see Job 34:29).