Job 38:1
Then LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
In Context
2Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Cross References
Exodus 19:16And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of an exceedingly loud trumpet. And all the people who were in the camp trembled.
Deuteronomy 5:22These words LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tablets of stone, and gave them to
2 Kings 2:1And it came to pass, when LORD would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
Job 11:5But O that God would speak, and open his lips against thee,
Job 37:9Out of the chamber [of the south] comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
Job 40:1Moreover LORD answered Job, and said,
Matthew Henry on Job 38:1
In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job's friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he to Elihu. But, after all the wranglings of the counsel at bar, the judge upon the bench must have the last word; so God had here, and so he will have in every controversy, for every man's judgment proceeds from him and by his definitive sentence every man must stand or fall and every cause be won or lost. Job had often appealed to God, and had talked boldly how he would order… Read the whole commentary →