Job 38:1
And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
In Context
2Who is this that darkeneth 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 heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of the trumpet exceeding loud; and the whole people that was in the camp trembled.
Deuteronomy 5:22These words Jehovah spoke to all your congregation on the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the obscurity, with a great voice, and he added no more; and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.
2 Kings 2:1And it came to pass when Jehovah would take up Elijah into the heavens by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
Job 11:5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
Job 37:9From the chamber [of the south] cometh the whirlwind; and cold from the winds of the north.
Job 40:1And Jehovah 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 →