17 You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
17 How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
17 you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?
17 Why, you don't even know how to keep cool on a sweltering hot day,
17 Why are your garments hot, When He quiets the earth by the south wind?
17 When you are sweltering in your clothes and the south wind dies down and everything is still,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 37:17
Commentary on Job 37:14-20
(Read Job 37:14-20)
Due thoughts of the works of God will help to reconcile us to all his providences. As God has a powerful, freezing north wind, so he has a thawing, composing south wind: the Spirit is compared to both, because he both convinces and comforts, Song of Solomon 4:16. The best of men are much in the dark concerning the glorious perfections of the Divine nature and the Divine government. Those who, through grace, know much of God, know nothing, in comparison with what is to be known, and of what will be known, when that which is perfect is come.