Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 36:27

27. For he maketh small the drops of water , they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof :

Having affirmed that Gods works are incomprehensibly great and glorious, he now enters upon the proof of it; and he proveth it from the most common and vi[illegible: 1+ letters]ble works of Nature and Providence, which if thoroughly considered are full of wonder, and past the reach of the greatest Philosophers, who indeed speak of them only by guess, and by their [illegible: 1+ letters]rable disputations about them discover their ignorance in them. And hence he leaves it to Iob to consider how incomparably more deep and unconceivable, the secret counsels and judgments of God must needs be, and therefore how foolish and [illegible: 1 word] a thing it was for him to judge and censure them.

i. e. He orders matters so wisely and graciously, that the waters which are in the [illegible: 1+ letters]louds, do not fall down at once in Spouts, or Rivers, or Seas; which would be both unprofitable and pernicious to the Earth and to Mankind, but by degrees and in drops; which is best for mens safety and comfort, and for the refreshment of the Earth. And this [illegible: 1 word] observes as a wonderful work of God: without whose Providence herein those Waters might constantly or commonly fall in spouts, as [illegible: 1 word] part of them hath done.

Either the Waters, last mentioned: or the Clouds, as it is expr[illegible: 1+ letters]ed in the next Verse: or the active Verb is used impersonally, which is frequent in the Hebrew Language, they pour down rain, for, the rain is poured down.

Or [illegible: 1 word] or [illegible: 1 word], which word is borrowed from Metallis[illegible: 1+ letters], who dissolve Metals with Fire, and then pour them [illegible: 1+ letters]orth by degrees and in parcels, as the Clouds are dissolved and then poured forth in drops, as was now expressed.

i. e. According to the proportion of vapours which the heat of the Sun hath drawn up from the Earth or [illegible: 1+ letters]ea into the Clouds. Or, into the vapour thereof. So it notes that great work of God by which the Rain is first made of Vapours, and afterwards resolved into Vapours, or into the matter of succeeding Vapours, by a constant rotation and reciprocation.