Job 38:1
Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said :
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
In Context
2Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words?
Cross References
Exodus 19:16And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud, and the people that was in the camp, feared.
Deuteronomy 5:22These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness, with a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone, which he delivered unto me.
2 Kings 2:1And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elias into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elias and Eliseus were going from Galgal.
Job 11:5And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,
Job 37:9Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the north.
Job 40:1And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, 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 →