Job 38:23
That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
In Context
22Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?
24Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 9:18lo, I am raining about [this] time to-morrow hail very grievous, such as hath not been in Egypt, even from the day of its being founded, even until now.
Joshua 10:11And it cometh to pass, in their fleeing from the face of Israel — they [are] in the descent of Beth-Horon — and Jehovah hath cast upon them great stones out of the heavens, unto Azekah, and they die; more are they who have died by the hailstones than they whom the sons of Israel have slain by the sword.
Job 36:31For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.
Ezekiel 13:11Say to those daubing with chalk — It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend,
Matthew 7:27and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'
Matthew Henry on Job 38:13-25
Works of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?… Read the whole commentary →