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Literal Standard Version

Job 37:9

From the inner chamber comes a windstorm, || And from scatterings winds—cold,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   God Continued...;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Religion;   Weather;   Whirlwind;   Wind;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cold, the;   Meteorology;   North;   Whirlwind;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Providence of God, the;   Whirlwind;   Wind, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Whirlwinds;   Winds;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Nature, Natural;   Testimony;   Easton Bible Dictionary - South;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Whirlwind;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Breath;   Chambers of the South;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Whirlwind;   Wind;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - South ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - North;   Whirlwind;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - South;   Whirlwind;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Astronomy;   Winds;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The windstorm comes from its chamber,and the cold from the driving north winds.
Hebrew Names Version
Out of its chamber comes the storm, And cold out of the north.
King James Version
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
English Standard Version
From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
New Century Version
The storm comes from where it was stored; the cold comes with the strong winds.
New English Translation
A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.
Amplified Bible
"Out of its chamber comes the storm, And cold from the north wind.
New American Standard Bible
"From the south comes the storm, And from the north wind the cold.
World English Bible
Out of its chamber comes the storm, And cold out of the north.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The whirlewind commeth out of the South, and the colde from the North winde.
Legacy Standard Bible
Out of the south comes the storm,And out of the north the cold.
Berean Standard Bible
The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
Contemporary English Version
The windstorms of winter strike,
Complete Jewish Bible
"Out of its chamber comes the storm, with cold out of the north.
Darby Translation
From the chamber [of the south] cometh the whirlwind; and cold from the winds of the north.
Easy-to-Read Version
Whirlwinds come from the south. The cold winds come from the north.
George Lamsa Translation
Out of the inner chambers comes the whirlwind; and cold out of the downpour.
Good News Translation
The storm winds come from the south, and the biting cold from the north.
Lexham English Bible
"The storm wind comes from its chamber and cold from the north wind.
Literal Translation
Out of the storeroom comes the tempest, and cold from scattering winds.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Out of the south commeth the tempest, and colde out of the north.
American Standard Version
Out of the chamber of the south cometh the storm, And cold out of the north.
Bible in Basic English
Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.
King James Version (1611)
Out of the South commeth the whirlewinde: and cold out of the North.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Out of the south commeth the tempest, and colde out from the north winde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Troubles come on out of the secret chambers, and cold from the mountain-tops.
English Revised Version
Out of the chamber of the south cometh the storm: and cold out of the north.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Tempestis schulen go out fro the ynnere thingis, and coold fro Arturus.
Update Bible Version
Out of the chamber [of the south] comes the storm, And cold out of the north.
Webster's Bible Translation
From the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold from the north.
New King James Version
From the chamber of the south comes the whirlwind, And cold from the scattering winds of the north.
New Living Translation
The stormy wind comes from its chamber, and the driving winds bring the cold.
New Life Bible
The storm comes from the south, and the cold from the north.
New Revised Standard
From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Out of a chamber cometh a storm-wind, and, out of the north, cold.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the north.
Revised Standard Version
From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
Young's Literal Translation
From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds -- cold,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Out of the south comes the storm, And out of the north the cold.

Contextual Overview

6For He says to snow: Be [on] the earth. And the small rain and great rain of His power. 7Into the hand of every man he seals, || For the knowledge by all men of His work. 8And the beast enters into [its] lair, || And it continues in its habitations. 9From the inner chamber comes a windstorm, || And from scatterings winds—cold,10From the breath of God is frost given, || And the breadth of waters is constricted, 11Indeed, by filling He presses out a cloud, [and] His light scatters a cloud. 12And it is turning itself around by His counsels, || For their doing all He commands them, || On the face of the habitable earth. 13Whether for a rod, or for His land, || Or for kindness—He causes it to come.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

south: Heb. chamber, Job 9:9, Psalms 104:3

the whirlwind: Job 38:1, Isaiah 21:1, Zechariah 9:14

north: Heb. scattering winds

Reciprocal: Psalms 147:16 - scattereth Ecclesiastes 1:6 - The wind

Cross-References

Genesis 37:7
that, behold, we are binding bundles in the midst of the field, and behold, my bundle has arisen, and has also stood up, and behold, your bundles are all around, and they bow themselves to my bundle."
Genesis 37:9
And he dreams yet another dream, and recounts it to his brothers, and says, "Behold, I have dreamed a dream again, and behold, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars, are bowing themselves to me."
Genesis 37:10
And he recounts to his father, and to his brothers; and his father pushes against him, and says to him, "What [is] this dream which you have dreamed? Do we certainly come, I, and your mother, and your brothers—to bow ourselves to you, to the earth?"
Genesis 37:14
and he says to him, "Now go see the peace of your brothers, and the peace of the flock, and bring me back word"; and he sends him from the Valley of Hebron, and he comes to Shechem.
Genesis 37:15
And a man finds him, and behold, he is wandering in the field, and the man asks him, saying, "What do you seek?"
Genesis 37:21
And Reuben hears, and delivers him out of their hand, and says, "Let us not strike the life";
Genesis 41:25
And Joseph says to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he has declared to Pharaoh;
Genesis 41:32
And because of the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, surely the thing is established by God, and God is hurrying to do it.
Genesis 43:28
And they say, "Your servant our father [is] well, he is yet alive"; and they bow, and pay respect.
Genesis 44:14
And Judah and his brothers come to the house of Joseph, and he is yet there, and they fall to the earth before him;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 othunas. The Hebrew word used here (חדר cheder) denotes properly “an apartment,” or “chamber,” especially an inner apartment, or a chamber in the interior of a house or tent: Genesis 43:30; Judges 16:9, Judges 16:12. Hence, it means a bed-chamber, 2 Samuel 4:7, or a female apartment or harem, Song of Solomon 1:4; Song of Solomon 3:4. In Job 9:9, it is connected with the “south” - “the chambers of the south” (see the notes at that place), and means some remote, hidden regions in that quarter. There can be little doubt that the word “south “is here also to be understood, as it stands in contrast with a word which properly denotes the north. Still there may have been reference to a supposed opinion that whirlwinds had their origin in deep, hollow caves, and that they were owing to the winds which were supposed to be pent up there, and which raged tumultuously until they broke open the doors of their prison, and then poured forth with violence over the earth; compare the description of the storm in Virgil, as quoted above in Job 37:5. There are frequent allusions in the Scriptures to the fact that whirlwinds come from the South; see the notes at Isaiah 21:1; compare Zechariah 9:14. Savary says of the south wind, which blows in Egypt from February to May, that it fills the atmosphere with a fine dust, rendering breathing difficult, and that it is filled with an injurious vapor. Sometimes it appears in the form of a furious whirlwind, which advances with great rapidity, and which is highly dangerous to those who traverse the desert. It drives before it clouds of burning sand; the horizon appears covered with a thick veil, and the sun appears red as blood. Occasionally whole caravans are buried by it in the sand. It is possible that there may be reference to such a whirlwind in the passage before us; compare Burder, in Rosenmuller’s Alte u. neue Morgenland. No. 765.

The whirlwind - See Job 1:19, note; Job 30:22, note.

And cold out of the north - Margin, “scattering” winds. The Hebrew word used here (מזרים mezâriym) means literally, “the scattering,” and is hence used for the north winds, says Gesenius which scatter the clouds, and bring severe cold. Umbreit thinks the word is used to denote the north, because we seem to see the north winds strewed on the clouds. Probably the reference is to the north wind as scattering the snow or hail on the ground. Heated winds come from the south; but those which scatter the snow, and are the source of cold, come from the north. In all places north of the equator it is true that the winds from the northern quarter are the source of cold. The idea of Elihu is, that all these things are under the control of God, and that these various arrangements for heat and cold are striking proofs of his greatness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 37:9. Out of the south cometh the whirlwindJob 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.


 
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