Job 37:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:17 : 17 When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
  • Job 38:31 : 31 Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?
  • Ps 147:18 : 18 He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.
  • Luke 12:55 : 55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say,‘There will be scorching heat,’ and there is.

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  • Job 37:9-11
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    9 A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.

    10 The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

    11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

  • Job 37:14-16
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    14 “Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still and consider the wonders God works.

    15 Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

    16 Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • 18 will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

  • 24 In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

  • 8 When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

  • Job 37:21-22
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    21 But now, the sun cannot be looked at– it is bright in the skies– after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

    22 From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

  • 55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say,‘There will be scorching heat,’ and there is.

  • 6 For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’

  • 6 The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.

  • 26 He brought the east wind through the sky, and by his strength led forth the south wind.

  • 7 He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33 Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

    34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

  • Ps 147:16-18
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    16 He sends the snow that is white like wool; he spreads the frost that is white like ashes.

    17 He throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends?

    18 He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.

  • 9 when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

  • 22 Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

  • Job 38:37-38
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    37 Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

    38 when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

  • 17 You set up all the boundaries of the earth; you created the cycle of summer and winter.

  • 16 When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • 8 O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

  • 4 Who has ascended into heaven, and then descended? Who has gathered up the winds in his fists? Who has bound up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you can know!

  • 29 Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

  • 4 God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

  • 17 When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

  • 18 Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

  • 26 “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?

  • 1 VI. The Divine Speeches(38:1-42:6)The Lord’s First Speech Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:

  • 27 He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

  • 13 When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • 29 But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

  • Job 38:28-29
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    28 Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

    29 From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,

  • 21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

  • 7 The whole earth rests and is quiet; they break into song.

  • 33 His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.

  • 14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

  • 2 “How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?

  • 22 You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

  • 6 It emerges from the distant horizon, and goes from one end of the sky to the other; nothing can escape its heat.

  • 26 Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

  • 29 He calmed the storm, and the waves grew silent.

  • 13 that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?