Job 38:1
And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
In Context
2“Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?
Cross References
Exodus 19:16And it comes to pass, on the third day, while it is morning, that there are voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very strong horn; and all the people who [are] in the camp tremble.
Deuteronomy 5:22YHWH has spoken these words to all your assembly in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, [and] of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, [with] a great voice; and He has not added; and He writes them on two tablets of stone and gives them to me.
2 Kings 2:1And it comes to pass, at YHWH’s taking up Elijah to the heavens in a whirlwind, that Elijah goes, and Elisha, from Gilgal,
Job 11:5And yet, O that God had spoken! And opens His lips with you.
Job 37:9From the inner chamber comes a windstorm, || And from scatterings winds—cold,
Job 40:1And YHWH answers Job and says:
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 →