Job 37:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Job 37:17 —

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Cross-References

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Job 38:31
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Job 6:17
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Luke 12:55
And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
Psalms 147:18
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-20)

Elihu here addresses himself closely to Job, desiring him to apply what he had hitherto said to himself. He begs that he would hearken to this discourse (Job 37:14), that he would pause awhile: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. What we hear is not likely to profit us unless we consider it, and we are not likely to consider things fully unless we stand still and compose ourselves…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. thy garments, &c.--that is, dost thou know how thy body grows warm, so as to affect thy garments with heat? south wind--literally, “region of the south.” “When He maketh still (and sultry) the earth (that is, the atmosphere) by (during) the south wind” (So 4:16).