“ Out of the southc cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. ”
Out of the south - Margin, “chamber.” Jerome, “ab interioribus - from the interior,” or “inner places.” Septuagint, ἐκ ταυείων ek taueiōn - “from their chambers issue sorrows” - ὀωυ...
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the (f) north. (f) In Hebrew it is called the scattering wind, because it drives away the clouds and purges the air.
Elihu trembles at this. Listen to the thunder. First the lightning flashes ( Job 37:3 ) then the thunder follows ( Job 37:4 f.). Job 37:2 suggests that a thunderstorm was actually taking place...
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. Out of the south cometh the whirlwind - See the note on Job 9:9 . What is rendered south here, is there rendered chambers. Mr. Good...
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. South - literally, chamber; connected with the south х cheder ( H2315 )] (cf. note, Job 9:9 ). The whirlwinds are poetic...
The Speeches of Elihu (concluded) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29 . Sound] RM 'muttering.'
Out of the south. — Rather, out of its chamber (see Job 9:9 ) cometh the whirlwind, or typhoon: and cold from the northern constellations, from the quarter of the heavens where they shine.
XXVI. THE DIVINE PREROGATIVE Job 35:1-16 ; Job 36:1-33 ; Job 37:1-24 AFTER a long digression Elihu returns to consider the statement ascribed to Job, "It profiteth a man nothing that he shou...
the Light in the Clouds Job 37:1-24 As Elihu spoke a thunder-storm was gathering, and much of the imagery of this chapter is suggested by that fact. The little group listened to the sound of Go...
The description of the storm commenced in the previous chapter and is here completed. There is first the drawing up of the water into the clouds, their spreading over the sky, the strange mutterings...
(8) Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. (9) Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. (10) By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the wa...
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind ,.... Or "from the chamber" n; from the chamber of the cloud, as Ben Gersom, from the inside of it; or from the treasury of God, who bringeth the wind out of hi...
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. Ver. 9. Out of the south cometh the whirlwind ] Which is a wonderful wind indeed; τυφων the Greeks call it (as they do a like wind...
Out of the south Hebrew, מן החרד, min ha-chered: εκ ταμειων : de promptuariis, out of the store-houses , LXX.; ab interioribus, from the inner chambers , Vulgate Latin. The same with the chamb...
MAN'S IMPOTENCE IN THE STORM (vv.1-5) As the storm breaks upon them, Elihu himself trembles (v.1). The thunder of God's voice calls for man's close attention and His lightning spreads over the w...
6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. 7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work....
Out of the south, Heb. out of the inner chamber ; as the southern part of the world is called, because in a great part it was and is hid and unknown to those who live in the northern hemisphere, i...
ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH CONTINUED Elihu continues his discourse, apparently in the midst of loud thunder-claps, suddenly issuing from the storm-cloud out of which the Almighty was about to speak,...
Job 37:5 . God thundereth marvellously with his voice. See on Psalms 29 . This chapter is divided from the former, in the midst of a sublime description of a storm. Job 37:22 . The golden splen...
Hear attentively the noise of His voice. What is Elihu’s message What he really contributes to the main argument of the book is, that suffering may be medicinal, corrective, fructifying, as wel...
EXPOSITION Job 37:1-18 It has been already remarked that there is no natural division between Job 36:1-18 and Job 37:1-18 .—the description of the thunderstorm and its effects runs on. F...
The Last Word on the Miracles in NatuRev. 1. At this, namely, the powerful exhibition of God's majesty, as just described, also my heart trembleth and is moved out of his place, springing up, gi...
Isaiah 21:1 ; Job 38:1 ; Job 9:9 ; Psalms 104:3 ; Zechariah 9:14
Cold — Freezing winds.