John Trapp on Job 38:35

Verſe 35 Canſt thou ſend lightnings?] Nunquid emittes. Canſt thou ſend forth lightnings and thunder-bolts, as hurtful Creatures out of the Cave wherein they are kept? Or as ſo many ſouldiers or ſervants to do as thou commandeſt them? The Poets faine that Mercury had once a mind to ſteal Jupiters thunder-bolts, but durſt not leſt they ſhould burn his fingers. Hiſtories tell us of a King of Egypt, and of Caligula the Roman Emperor, that they attempttd to thunder and lighten,Admirari duntaxat poteſt, efficere non poteſt. Brent. but with very ill ſucceſs. Job is here told, that that is too hard a work for any creature to do.