American Standard Version
Job 37:9
9Out of the chamberof the south cometh the storm,And cold out of the north.
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
7He sealeth up the hand of every man, That all men whom he hath made may know it. 8Then the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens. Out of the chamberof the south cometh the storm, And cold out of the north. 10By the breath of God ice is given; And the breadth of the waters is straitened. 11Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:
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מִן־הַ֭חֶדֶר תָּב֣וֹא סוּפָ֑ה וּֽמִמְּזָרִ֥ים קָרָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 37:9
- Job 9:9That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;
- Psalms 104:3Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
- Job 38:1Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
- Isaiah 21:1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
- Zechariah 9:14And Jehovah shall be seen over them; and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds 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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