Job 38:1
Then did the Lord address Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
In Context
2Who is this that casteth darkness [on my] 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 was upon the mount, and the voice of the cornet was exceedingly loud; so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.
Deuteronomy 5:22(5:19) These words did the Lord speak unto 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, but he did so no more; and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them unto me.
2 Kings 2:1And it came to pass, when the Lord was about to take up Elijah by a storm-wind to heaven, that Elijah went out with Elisha' from Gilgal.
Job 11:5But oh that God would but speak, and open his lips against thee;
Job 37:9Out of [his] chamber cometh the whirlwind, and out of the north, the cold.
Job 40:1And the Lord addressed 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 →