Job 38:23
Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
In Context
22Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, and hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,
24By what way is the light parted, [and] the east wind scattered upon the earth?
Cross References
Exodus 9:18Behold, to-morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since its foundation until now.
Joshua 10:11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them up to Azekah, and they died. They were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel had slain with the sword.
Job 36:31For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.
Ezekiel 13:11say unto them which daub it with untempered [mortar] that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing rain, and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall burst forth.
Matthew 7:27and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:13-25
Works of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?… Read the whole commentary →