Job 37:17
How your garments [are] warm, || In the quieting of the earth from the south?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
In Context
16Do you know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of the Perfect in knowledge?
18You have made an expanse with Him || For the clouds—strong as a hard mirror!
Cross References
Job 6:17By the time they are warm they have been cut off, || By its being hot they have been || Extinguished from their place.
Psalms 147:18He sends forth His word and melts them, || He causes His wind to blow—the waters flow.
Matthew Henry on Job 37:15-21
14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. 15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? 16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? 17 How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind? 18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? 19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason… Read the whole commentary →