Job 37:21

b. The changing phenomena in the sky lead Elihu to remark that the bright light may for a time be veiled by clouds and darkness, but these shall be chased away. So the hidden and unsearchable God, all of whose attributes harmonize with each other, shall disclose himself in love to the heart that submissively bends before his incomparable majesty and glory, Job 37:21-24.

21. And now is used in the temporal sense. The changes then taking place in the sky suggest the following beautiful figure:

Men see… cleanseth them Delitzsch, Zockler, and Hitzig read cleanseth, cleareth [chaseth] them away. Every cloud, however dark, not only has “a silver lining,” as we would say, but hides in ( ב ) and behind itself the precious light. The wind passes over the sky and clears away the clouds, and the hidden light is revealed. The clouds that are black to us are brightness on the other side. “There is abundance of light,” says Dr. Bushnell, “which we might readily infer from the fact that so much of it shines through.” Sermon, in loc. “Elihu hereby means to say that the God who is hidden only for a time, respecting whom one runs the risk of being in perplexity, can suddenly unveil himself to our surprise and confusion, and that, therefore, it becomes us to bow humbly and quietly to his present mysterious visitation.” Delitzsch. The following view of Conant, which agrees with that of Rosenmuller, Ewald, Hirtzel, etc., does not so well harmonize with the context: “Men cannot look on the clear sunlight in the cloudless sky; how then (Job 37:22) can they comprehend God, whom a more fearful majesty surrounds? Compare 1 Timothy 6:16.”