John Trapp on Job 38:37

Verſe 37. Who can number the clouds in wiſdome?] Quis ſapphirinas efficit nubes? Who can make the clouds like Sapphire, that is bright and clear? ſo ſome read it. Others, Who can declare the clouds? ſcil. their number, nature and uſes?

Or who can ſtay the bottle of heaven?] i.e. the clouds, fitly compared to bottle[illegible: 1 letter], as thoſe veſſels that hold the rain, and powre it out on the earth, when God pleaſeth to turn the mouths of thoſe bottles downward. This is a great Miracle, ſaith Lavater, that whereas water is fluid, and beareth downward, yet it abideth in the lofty and ſoft aire, nor can fall, but where and when God appointeth.