Job 38:1

And after Elihu had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, saying, 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

In Context

2Who is this that hides counsel from me, 1 And confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from me? 1

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Cross References

Exodus 19:16And it came to pass on the third day, as the morning drew nigh, there were voices and lightnings and a dark cloud on Mount Sinai: the voice of the trumpet sounded loud, and all the people in the camp trembled.

Deuteronomy 5:22These words the Lord spoke to all the assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire— there was darkness, blackness, storm, a loud voice—and he added no more, and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them to me.

2 Kings 2:1And it came to pass, when the Lord was going to take Elijah with a whirlwind as it were into heaven, that Elijah and Elisha went out of Gilgal.

Job 11:5But oh that the Lord would speak to thee, 1 And open his lips with thee! 1

Job 37:9Troubles come on out of the secret chambers, 1 And cold from the mountaintops. 1

Job 40:1And the Lord God answered Job and said, 1

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 →

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