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Job Chapter 38 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV Job 38:1

Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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BBE Job 38:1

And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
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DARBY Job 38:1

And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
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KJV Job 38:1

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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WBT Job 38:1

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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WEB Job 38:1

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
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YLT Job 38:1

And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind. It is remarked, with reason, that the special mention of Job as the person answered "implies that another speaker had intervened" (Wordsworth); while the attachment of the article to the word "whirlwind" implies some previous mention of that phenomenon, which is only to be found in the discourse of Elihu (Job 37:9). Both points have an important bearing on the genuineness of the disputed section, ch. 32- 37. And said. The question whether there was an objective utterance of human words out of the whirlwind, or only a subjective impression of the thoughts recorded on the minds of those present, is unimportant. In any case, there was a revelation direct from God, which furnished an authoritative solution of the questions debated to all who had been engaged in the debate.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXXXVIII.(1) Then the Lord answered Job.--This chapter brings the grand climax and catastrophe of the poem. Unless all was to remain hopelessly uncertain and dark, there could be no solution of the questions so fiercely and obstinately debated but by the intervention of Him whose government was the matter in dispute. And so the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, or tempest: that is to say, the tempest which had been long gathering, and which had been the subject of Elihu's remarks. The one argument which is developed in the remaining chapters is drawn from man's ignorance. There is so much in nature that man knows not and cannot understand, that it is absurd for him to suppose that he can judge aright in matters touching God's moral government of the world. Though Job is afterwards (Job 42:8) justified by God, yet the tone of all that God says to him is more or less mingled with reproach.