Job 37:9

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 seals the hand of every person, So that all people may know His work. 8Then the animal goes into its lair And remains in its den. From the south comes the storm, And from the north wind the cold. 10From the breath of God ice is made, And the expanse of the waters is frozen. 11He also loads the clouds with moisture; He disperses the cloud of His lightning.

Job 37:9 word by word

מִן־הַ֭חֶדֶר תָּב֣וֹא סוּפָ֑ה וּֽמִמְּזָרִ֥ים קָרָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• southחֶ֫דֶרcheder · chamberH2315
• comesבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• the stormסוּפָהsûphâh · whirlwindH5492
• And from the northזָרָהzârâh · to scatterH2219
• the coldקָרָהqârâh · coldH7135

Cross-references for Job 37:9

• Job 9:9Who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the constellations of the south.
• Psalms 104:3He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He walks on the wings of the wind;
• Job 38:1Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind and said,
• Isaiah 21:1The pronouncement concerning the wilderness of the sea: As windstorms in the Negev come in turns, It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.
• Zechariah 9:14Then the Lord will appear over them, And His arrow will go forth like lightning; And the Lord God will blow the trumpet, And march in the storm winds 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