Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 36:32

32. With clouds he covereth the light , and commandeth it not to shine , by the cloud that cometh betwixt .

With thick and black Clouds spread over the whole Heavens, as it is in times of great Thunders and Lightnings. Heb▪ with hands; either the Clouds are so called for their resemblance to hands, 1 Kings 18. 44. as being hollow and spread abroad: or the meaning is, that God covereth the light as it were by the hollow of his Hand, as a man sometimes cov[illegible: 1+ letters]rs the light of a Candle.

Either the Lightning, or rather the Sun, which is fitly called Light, Iob 31. 26. Psal. 136▪ 7. as being the Fountain of Light.

Or, giveth a charge concerning it, to wit, that it shall be covered: Or forbiddeth it, as this Hebrew word joyned with this Proposition usually signifies, as Gen. 2. 17. & 28. 6▪ 1 Kings 2. 43. & 11. 11. and elsewhere, i. e. hindreth it, as it were by an express command or prohibition, from its usual and pro[illegible: 1+ letters]er work, to wit, from shining.

Which God interposeth as a vail between the Sun and Earth: by which he doth as it were deliver his command or prohibition to the Sun, that he should not shine.