Mark Dunagan Commentaries
Job 37:9
God can make ice and freeze lakes and rivers by the mere breath of His mouth.
God can make ice and freeze lakes and rivers by the mere breath of His mouth.
Verse Job 37:9. _OUT OF THE SOUTH COMETH THE WHIRLWIND_] Job 9:9. What is rendered _south_ here, is there rendered _chambers_. Mr. _Good_ translates here, _the utmost zone_. The _Chaldee_: - "From th...
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” - ὀωύνας _othun...
CHAPTER S 36:22--37:24 _ 1. God's power and presence in nature (Job 36:22)_ 2. The thunderstorm (Job 37:1) 3. The snow and the rain (Job 37:6) 4. Elihu's concluding remarks ...
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 while Elih...
The rendering of this verse in the A.V. is free and in some measure conjectural. _the south_ lit. _the chamber_. In ch. Job 9:9 reference was made to the "chambers of the south," and it has been assum...
Another wonder of God's power, snow and frost....
Job 36:26-33. The greatness and unsearchableness of God, seen in His marvellous operations in the skies; and exhortation to Job to allow these wonders duly to impress him, and to bow beneath the great...
Frost and ice....
F. THE CREATOR AND THE CREATION (Job 37:1-24) 1. The marvelous activity of God in nature (Job 37:1-13) TEXT 37:1-13 37 Yea, at this my heart trembleth, And is moved oat of its place. 2 Hear, oh,...
_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 poetically regarde...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONCLUDED) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29. SOUND] RM 'muttering.'...
Render, 'The whirlwind comes from its chamber, and cold from the scatterers,' i.e. from the winds (so RM), which scatter the clouds. But we should probably read, 'from its storehouses,' with a triflin...
For many Chapter s, Job and his friends had talked about God. Some things that they said were correct. But other things were wrong. Job and his friends were talking about things that they did not know...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 37 ELIHU INTRODUCES GOD TO...
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....
מִן ־הַ֭ חֶדֶר תָּבֹ֣וא סוּפָ֑ה וּֽ מִ
XXVI. THE DIVINE PREROGATIVE Job 35:1; Job 36:1; Job 37:1 AFTER a long digression Elihu returns to consider the statement ascribed to Job, "It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself...
THE LIGHT IN THE CLOUDS Job 37:1 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 God's voice...
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 o...
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....
Parts. The south, (chap. ix. 9.) whence storms commonly came in that country, (Calmet) from the sea or desert of Idumea. (Haydock) (Psalm lxxvii. 26., and Zacharias ix. 14., and Isaias xxi. 1.) --- No...
(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 wat...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 THROUGH 37. But these spiritual affections of Job did not prevent his turning this consciousness of integrity into a robe of self-righteousness which hid G...
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 t...
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 a...
_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 chambe...
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, giving a...
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind, rushing forth as from an enclosure in which it had been confined, AND COLD OUT OF THE NORTH, literally, "from the cloud-scatterers," for frost usually follows cl...
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 whole...
OUT OF THE SOUTH: _ Heb._ out of the chamber NORTH: _ Heb._ scattering winds...
1-13 The changes of the weather are the subject of a great deal of our thoughts and common talk; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu, with a regard to God, the director of...
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, in w...
Job 37:9 chamber H2315 comes H935 (H8799) whirlwind H5492 cold H7135 winds H4215 south - Heb. chamber,...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. God's majesty. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job. CONCLUSION: We must all own that our finite understandings cannot comprehend the infinite perfections of God, but w...
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 splendour _co...
_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 well as...
_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, and...
EXPOSITION JOB 37:1 It has been already remarked that there is no natural division between Job 36:1 and Job 37:1.—the description of the thunderstorm and its effects runs on. From its effect on cattl...
At this also my heart trembled, and is moved out of his place. Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth. He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightni...
Isaiah 21:1; Job 38:1; Job 9:9; Psalms 104:3; Zechariah 9:14...
Cold — Freezing winds....