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Job 37:9
9Out of its chamber comes the storm, And cold from the north wind.
Job 37:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
- New International Version (NIV)The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds.
- English Standard Version (ESV)From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
- New King James Version (NKJV)From the chamber of the south comes the whirlwind, And cold from the scattering winds of the north.
Context of Job 37:9
7God seals (brings to a standstill, stops) [by severe weather] the hand of every man, That all men [whom He has made] may know His work [that is, His sovereign power and their subjection to it]. 8Then the beast goes into its lair And remains in its hiding place. Out of its chamber comes the storm, And cold from the north wind. 10Ice is made by the breath of God, And the expanse of the waters is frozen. 11He loads the thick cloud with moisture; He disperses the cloud of His lightning.
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מִן־הַ֭חֶדֶר תָּב֣וֹא סוּפָ֑ה וּֽמִמְּזָרִ֥ים קָרָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 37:9
- Job 9:9Who made [the constellations] the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the [vast starry] spaces of the south;
- Psalms 104:3Who lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters [above the firmament], Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,
- Job 38:1Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
- Isaiah 21:1The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning the Desert of the Sea (the seasonally flooded plains just south of Babylon): As windstorms in the Negev (the South) sweep through, So it (God’s judgment) comes from the desert, from [the hostile armies of] a terrifying land.
- Zechariah 9:14Then the Lord will be seen [hovering] over them [protecting His people], And His arrow will go forth like lightning; And the Lord God will blow the trumpet And will march in the windstorms of the south.
Commentaries on Job 37:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Out of the south cometh the whirlwind - See the note on Job 9:9. What is rendered south here, is there rendered chambers. Mr. Good translates here, the utmost zone. The Chaldee: - "From the supreme chamber the commotion shall come; and from the cataracts of Arcturus the cold." What the whirlwind, סופה suphah, is, we know not. It might have been a wind peculiar to that district; and it is very possible that it was a scorching wind, something like the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Out of the south - Margin, “chamber.” Jerome, “ab interioribus - from the interior,” or “inner places.” Septuagint, ̓ ́ ek taueiōn - “from their chambers issue sorrows” - ̓́ othunas The Hebrew word used here (חדר cheder ) denotes properly “an apartment,” or “chamber,” especially an inner apartment, or a chamber in the interior of a house or tent: Genesis 43:30; Judges 16:9, Judges 16:12. Hence, it means a bed-chamber, 2 Samuel 4:7, or a female apartment…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. south--literally, "chambers"; connected with the south (Job 9:9). The whirlwinds are poetically regarded as pent up by God in His southern chambers, whence He sends them forth (so Job 38:22; Psa 135:7). As to the southern whirlwinds (see Is 21:1; Zec 9:14), they drive before them burning sands; chiefly from February to May. the north--literally, "scattering"; the north wind scatters the clouds.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 37
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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