Job 38:1
Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
In Context
2Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?
Cross References
Exodus 19:16And the thirde day, when it was morning, there was thunders and lightnings, and a thicke cloude vpon the mount, and the sounde of the trumpet exceeding loude, so that all the people, that was in the campe, was afrayde.
Deuteronomy 5:22These wordes the Lord spake vnto all your multitude in the mount out of the mids of the fire, the cloude and the darkenes, with a great voyce, and added no more thereto: and wrote them vpon two tables of stone, and deliuered them vnto me.
2 Kings 2:1And when the Lord would take vp Eliiah into heauen by a whirle winde, Eliiah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
Job 11:5But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!
Job 37:9The whirlewind commeth out of the South, and the colde from the North winde.
Job 40:1Againe the Lord answered Iob out of the whirle winde, 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 →