Job 38:1
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
In Context
2“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Cross References
Exodus 19:16On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
Deuteronomy 5:22The LORD spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
2 Kings 2:1When the LORD was about to take Elijah up by a whirlwind into heaven, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
Job 11:5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
Job 37:9Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
Job 40:1Moreover the LORD answered 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 →