Job 37:6

Strophe e. The thunder-storm suggests to the mind of Elihu other meteorological phenomena of nature, such as snow, rains, wind, ice, and in general the reign of winter, which, by scaling up the face of nature, furnishes man abundant opportunity for reflection, Job 37:6-10.

6. Be thou As in the Septuagint; or, Fall thou, according to some critics, which, as Conant says, “very poorly expresses the gentle falling of the snow.” As respects sublimity, the passage reminds us of the divine fiat that called light into being. Genesis 1:3. The uncounted flakes of snow, in crystallized beauty, and pure as the light of the day, no less express the merciful thought of God than, as Elihu intimates, his ever-recurring creative act. E.H. Palmer, when in Idumaea, encountered a heavy storm of snow, which soon rendered the mountain paths impassable, and subjected the party to extreme discomfort. ( Desert of the Exodus, p. 444.)

Small rain Rather, a gush of rain, such as follows a clap of thunder. So copious is the Hebrew language, that it has no less than seven different words for rain. The view of Hirtzel and Dillmann, that there is a reference here to the early and latter rain, is not sustained.