9Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
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Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
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.
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.
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)The changes and extremities of the weather, wet or dry, hot or cold, are the subject of a great deal of our common talk and observation; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu does here, with an awful regard to God the director of them, who shows his power and serves the purposes of his providence by them! We must take notice of the glory of God, not only in the thunder and…
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