Job 38:1
Then Yahweh spoke to Job from inside a great windstorm. He said to him,
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:16Two days later, during the morning, there was thunder and lightning, and a very dark cloud on the mountain. A trumpet sounded very loudly, with the result that the people in the camp shook/trembled because they were very afraid.
Deuteronomy 5:22Those are the commandments that Yahweh spoke to your ancestors. When they were gathered there at the bottom of the mountain, he spoke with a very loud voice from the middle of the fire, and there were dark clouds surrounding the mountain. He spoke only those ten commandments, no more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
2 Kings 2:1When Yahweh was about to take the prophet Elijah up to heaven in a ◄whirlwind/twisting wind►, Elijah and his fellow prophet Elisha were traveling south from Gilgal town.
Job 11:5But I wish/desire that God would talk and say something [MTY] to answer you!
Job 37:9The storms/hurricanes come from the place in the south where they start, and the cold wind comes from the north.
Job 40:1Then Yahweh said to Job,
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 →