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 his treasures; alluding to chambers where treasures are kept; or from the heavens, shut up and veiled around with clouds like a pavilion: but because we read of the chambers of the south, Job 9:9; and the southern pole was like a secret chamber, shut up, unseen, and unknown very much to the ancients; hence we render it, and others interpret it, of the south; from whence in these countries came whirlwinds. Hence we read of the whirlwinds of the south, Isaiah 21:1;
and cold out of the north; cold freezing winds from thence; or "from the scatterers" o: Aben Ezra interprets them of stars, the same with the "Mazzaroth", Job 38:32; stars scattered about the Arctic or northern pole, as some: or rather the northern winds are designed which scatter the clouds, drive away rain, Proverbs 25:23; and bring fair weather,
Job 37:22. Wherefore Mr. Broughton renders the word,
"fair weather winds;''
and, in a marginal note,
"the scatterers of clouds p.''
n מן החדר "de penetali", Montanus; so Junius and Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schultens. o ממזרים "a dispergentibus", Montanus, Vatablus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "a sparsoribus", Schultens. p So David de Pomis, Lexic. fol. 7. 3.