approve; and it may be easy from the context to learn, that the Prophet does not speak according to his private feeling, but that he represents the feelings of all the godly. So then we ought to connect this verse with the complaints, which we have before noticed; for the Prophet, finding himself sinking, and as it were overwhelmed in the deepest abyss, raises himself up above the judgment and reason of men, and comes nearer to God, that he might see from on high the things which take place on earth,