Job 38:23 Commentary: Rashi & Malbim

That I saved I withheld.

He adds that both are essential and useful, but both can also cause great damage and destruction, as in avalanches or hail-storms as happened, according to Malbim, in the year 5548 (1787/8 - he does not say where). Thus, they can be employed as instruments of Providence.

for a time of trouble For the five kings in Gibeon.