He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds
The clouds are of his making; when he utters his voice, or gives
the word of command, there is a multitude of waters in the
heavens; and the vapours he exhales from the ends of the earth
and forms them into clouds, and they are his chariots, in which
he rides up and down in the heavens, and waters his gardens and
plantations on earth; see ( Jeremiah
10:13 ) ( Psalms 104:3
) ; which may be said to be thick in comparison of the air, in
which they are; otherwise they are but thin, and the thinner they
are, the greater wonder it is that the waters, and such a heavy
body of them, should be bound up in them, as there often is; and
which is bound up, held, and retained therein, as anything bound
up in a sack or bag, or in a garment, or the skirt of a man's
coat; see ( Proverbs
30:4 ) ; and what is still more marvellous:
and the cloud is not rent under them;
under the waters, and through the weight of them; which, if it
was, would fall in vast water spouts, and were such to fall upon
the earth, as it may be supposed they did at the general deluge,
they would destroy man and beast, and wash off and wash away the
things of the earth: but God has so ordered it in his infinite
wisdom, and by his almighty power, that clouds should not be thus
rent, but fall in small drops and gentle showers, as if they
passed through a sieve or colander, whereby the earth is
refreshed, and made fruitful; see ( Job
36:26-29 ) ( 37:16 ) .