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 sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work. 8Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. 10By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. 11Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:

Job 37:9 word by word

מִן־הַ֭חֶדֶר תָּב֣וֹא סוּפָ֑ה וּֽמִמְּזָרִ֥ים קָרָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• 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 9:9Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and 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 Yhwh 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 Yhwh shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord Yhwh shall blow the trumpet, and shall 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