He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Stones. So S. Jerom renders the Hebrew Prot. “than gold; yea, than much fine gold.” Paz ( Bible.) denotes the finest gold of Uphan, or of the Phison; which is probably the river Phasis. Genesis 2:11. Calmet.—Yet many explain this word of the topaz or chrysolite, which is of a golden colour. The Vulg. expresses topaz, (Psalms 118:127) where the Septuagint have, “a precious stone.”—Honeycomb, as the English and German versions have it, though the Hebrew signify, “the dropping of the honeycombs;” which is the most excellent honey. Bert.—This interpretation is inserted in the Prot. margin, and answers to S. Jerom’s favum redundantem. Nothing can be more delicious, or more magnificent. Bible.