Revised Version 1895
Job 37:22
22Out of the north cometh golden splendour: God hath upon him terrible majesty.
Job 37:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
- New International Version (NIV)Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He comes from the north as golden splendor; With God is awesome majesty.
Context of Job 37:22
20Shall it be told him that I would speak? or should a man wish that he were swallowed up? 21And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. Out of the north cometh golden splendour: God hath upon him terrible majesty. 23Touching the Almighty, we can not find him out; he is excellent in power: and in judgment and plenteous justice he will not afflict. 24Men do therefore fear him: he regardeth not any that are wise of heart.
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מִ֭צָּפוֹן זָהָ֣ב יֶֽאֱתֶ֑ה עַל־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַּ נ֣וֹרָא הֽוֹד׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 37:22
- Proverbs 25:23The north wind bringeth forth rain: so doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.
- Job 40:10Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity; and array thyself with honour and majesty.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
- Psalms 29:4The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
- Psalms 66:5Come, and see the works of God; he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
- Psalms 68:7O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah
- Psalms 76:12He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
- Psalms 93:1The LORD reigneth; he is apparelled with majesty; the LORD is apparelled, he hath girded himself with strength: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
- Psalms 104:1Bless the LORD O my soul, O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
- Psalms 145:5Of the glorious majesty of thine honour, and of thy wondrous works, will I meditate.
- Isaiah 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty.
- Micah 5:4And he shall stand, and shall feed his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God: and they shall abide; for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
- Nahum 1:3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Habakkuk 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
- Hebrews 1:3who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Hebrews 12:29for our God is a consuming fire.
Commentaries on Job 37:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22Fair weather cometh out of the north - Is this any version of the original יאתה זהב מצפון mitstsaphon zahab yeetheh ? which is rendered by almost every version, ancient and modern, thus, or to this effect: "From the north cometh gold." Calmet justly remarks, that in the time of Moses, Job, and Solomon, and for a long time after, gold was obtained from Colchis, Armenia, Phasis, and the land of Ophir, which were all north of Judea and Idumea; and are in the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22Fair weather - Margin, “gold,” The Hebrew word (זהב zâhâb ) properly means “gold,” and is so rendered by the Vulgate, the Syriac, and by most versions. The Septuagint renders it, ́ nepsē chrusaugounta “clouds shining like gold.” The Chaldee, אסתניא, the north wind, Boreas. Many expositors have endeavored to show that gold was found in the northern regions (see Schultens, in loc.); and it is not difficult so to establish that fact as to be a…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-24Verses 21-24 Elihu concludes his discourse with some great sayings concerning the glory of God. Light always is, but is not always to be seen. When clouds come between, the sun is darkened in the clear day. The light of God's favour shines ever towards his faithful servants, though it be not always seen. Sins are clouds, and often hinder us from seeing that bright light which is in the face of God. Also, as to those thick clouds of sorrow which often…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22Out of the north (Hebrew from Zaphon): In the literature of the ancient city of Ugarit, Zaphon was the northern mountain home of the false god "Baal." Here, it symbolically refers to the height of God's home in the heavens (see Isaiah 14:13–14).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. Rather, "golden splendor." Maurer translates "gold." It is found in northern regions. But God cannot be "found out," because of His "Majesty" (Job 37:23). Thus the twenty-eighth chapter corresponds; English Version is simpler. the north--Brightness is chiefly associated with it (see on Job 23:9). Here, perhaps, because the north wind clears the air (Pr 25:23). Thus this clause answers to the last of Job 37:21; as the second of this verse to the first…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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