Job 38:1
Then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said:—
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
In Context
2Who is it that darkeneth counsel, by words, without knowledge?
Cross References
Exodus 19:16And it came to pass on the third day, when the morning had come, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mount, and the sound of a horn, loud exceedingly,—and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
Deuteronomy 5:22These words, spake Yahweh unto all the convocation of you in the mount out of the midst of the fire the cloud and the thick gloom, a loud voice, and added not,—and he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.
2 Kings 2:1And it came to pass, when Yahweh was about to take up Elijah in a storm into the heavens, that Elijah departed, with Elisha, from Gilgal.
Job 11:5But, in very deed, oh that GOD would speak, that he would open his lips with thee:
Job 37:9Out of a chamber cometh a storm-wind, and, out of the north, cold.
Job 40:1And Yahweh responded 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 →