Job 38:1
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a horn exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled.
Deuteronomy 5:22(5-19) These words the LORD spoke unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and it went on no more. And He wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.
2 Kings 2:1And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
Job 11:5But oh that God would speak, and open His lips against thee;
Job 37:9Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.
Job 40:1Moreover the 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 →