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Job 37:9
9From the chamber [of the south] cometh the whirlwind; and cold from the winds 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 may know his work. 8And the wild beast goeth into its lair, and they remain in their dens. From the chamber [of the south] cometh the whirlwind; and cold from the winds of the north. 10By the breath of God ice is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened. 11Also with plentiful moisture he loadeth the thick clouds, his light dispels the cloud;
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מִן־הַ֭חֶדֶר תָּב֣וֹא סוּפָ֑ה וּֽמִמְּזָרִ֥ים קָרָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 37:9
- Job 9:9Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;
- Psalms 104:3Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
- Job 38:1And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
- Isaiah 21:1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through, so it cometh from the desert, 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 march 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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