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He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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Verse 12. Pavilion. Job 22:14 and 26:9. The Jews had this idea of God’s throne, of which we behold only the less brilliant side, as the Egyptians did that of the cloud. Exodus 14:19. The poets represent Jupiter surrounded with clouds and darkness. Hesiod. op. 125 and 255. Iliad O.—Air. The parallel passage, (2 Kennicott.) seems more accurate. Dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens. Hebrew “waters bound up in darksome clouds.” Calmet.—God is incomprehensible in himself, and his counsels are inscrutable. Worthington.
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