Job 37 · Verse 9

Job 37:9

Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
Job 37:9, King James Version

Job 37:9 in other translations

BSBThe tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
WEBOut of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
ASVOut of the chamber of the south cometh the storm, And cold out of the north.
YLTFrom the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds--cold,
DARBYFrom the chamber of the south cometh the whirlwind; and cold from the winds of the north.
BBEOut of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.
WebsterFrom the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold from the north.

What does Job 37:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. south--literally, "chambers"; connected with the south (Job 9:9). The whirlwinds are poetically regarded as pent up by God in His southern chambers, whence He sends them forth (so Job 38:22; Psa 135:7). As to the southern whirlwinds (see Is 21:1; Zec 9:14), they drive before them burning sands; chiefly from February to May. the north--literally, "scattering"; the north wind scatters the clouds.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 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 translates here, the utmost zone. The Chaldee: - "From the supreme chamber the commotion shall come; and from the cataracts of Arcturus the cold." What the whirlwind, סופה suphah, is, we know not. It might have been a wind peculiar to that district; and it is very possible that it was a scorching wind, something like the simoom.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 37:1-13

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 them! We must notice the glory of God, not only in the thunder and lightning, but in the more common and less awful changes of the weather; as the snow and rain. Nature directs all creatures to shelter themselves from a…

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Job 37:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מִן\־min-fromH4480
הַ֭חֶדֶרHa.che.derthe chamberH2315
תָּב֣וֹאta.Vo'it comesH935
סוּפָ֑הsu.Faha storm-windH5492
וּֽמִמְּזָרִ֥יםu.mi.me.za.Rimand from [the] scattering windsH4215
קָרָֽה\׃ka.RahcoldnessH7135

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Cross references for Job 37:9

  • Job 9:9

    Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

  • Isaiah 21:1

    The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

  • Psalms 104:3

    Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

  • Job 38:1

    Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

  • Zechariah 9:14

    And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
south. Heb. chamber.
9:9; Ps 104:3
the whirlwind.
38:1; Isa 21:1; Zec 9:14
north. Heb. scattering winds.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 37:8

    Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

  • Job 37:9

    Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

  • Job 37:10

    By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

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Job 37:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Del mediodía viene el torbellino, y el frío de los vientos del norte.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Des chambres du midi vient le tourbillon, et des vents du nord, le froid.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Aus der Kammer des Südens kommt Sturm, und von den Nordwinden Kälte.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ab interioribus egredietur tempestas, et ab Arcturo frigus.