Commentary for Job 22:14

Thick clouds are a concealment before Him, and He cannot see.

and He walks on the circle of the heavens and does not know what is on the earth.

Secondly, that in any case man is so insignificant that his acts cannot possibly affect Nature. On this view, the Flood that devastated Noah's generation was just a natural event: a consequence of blind Nature, unrelated to the wickedness of that generation. And thirdly, if Providence exists, how come it bestows such prosperity on sinners

circle Heb. חוג, the circle of the compass of the heavens, like (Isa. 44:13), “and with a compass (ובמחוגה) he rounds it,” compas in French