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

7Then everyone stops working so they can watch his power. 8The wild animals take cover and stay inside their dens. The stormy wind comes from its chamber, and the driving winds bring the cold. 10God’s breath sends the ice, freezing wide expanses of water. 11He loads the clouds with moisture, and they flash with his lightning.

Job 37:9 word by word

מִן־הַ֭חֶדֶר תָּב֣וֹא סוּפָ֑ה וּֽמִמְּזָרִ֥ים קָרָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Out of the southחֶ֫דֶרcheder · chamberH2315
• comethבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• the whirlwindסוּפָהsûphâh · whirlwindH5492
• and coldקָרָהqârâh · coldH7135
• out of the northמְזָרֶהmezâreh · scattering windH4215

Cross-references for Job 37:9

• Job 9:9He made all the stars—the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky.
• Psalms 104:3you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariot; you ride upon the wings of the wind.
• Job 38:1Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:
• Isaiah 21:1This message came to me concerning Babylon—the desert by the sea: Disaster is roaring down on you from the desert, like a whirlwind sweeping in from the Negev.
• Zechariah 9:14The Lord will appear above his people; his arrows will fly like lightning! The Sovereign Lord will sound the ram’s horn and attack like a whirlwind from the southern desert.

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

Topics related to Job 37:9

• God
• God Continued...
• Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena
• Religion
• Weather
• Whirlwind
• Wind

In the dictionaries

• Comprehend
• Den
• Direct
• Elihu
• South
• Astronomy
• God
• Whirlwind

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