Job 38:1

Then spake Jehovah to Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

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

In Context

2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

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Cross References

Job 11:5But O that God would speak, And open his lips against thee;

Job 37:9Out of the south cometh the whirlwind, And cold out of the north.

Job 40:1Moreover Jehovah spake to 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 →

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