Job 38:23
That I have kept back for a time of distress, || For a day of conflict and battle?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
In Context
22Have you come to the treasure of snow? Indeed, do you see the treasures of hail,
24Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 9:18behold, I am raining very grievous hail about [this] time tomorrow, such as has not been in Egypt from the day of its founding and until now.
Joshua 10:11And it comes to pass, in their fleeing from the face of Israel—they [are] in the descent of Beth-Horon—and YHWH has cast great stones on them out of the heavens, to Azekah, and they die; more are they who have died by the hailstones than they whom the sons of Israel have slain by the sword.
Job 36:31For He judges peoples by them, || He gives food in abundance.
Ezekiel 13:11Say to those coating with chalk—It falls, || There has been an overflowing shower, || And you, O hailstones, fall, || And a turbulent wind breaks out,
Matthew 7:27and the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.”
Matthew Henry on Job 38:13-25
Works of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?… Read the whole commentary →