What does Job 38:1 mean?

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Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

• 2 Kings 2:1

  And it came to pass, when Jehovah would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

• Nahum 1:3

  Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

• Job 37:14

  Hearken unto this, O Job: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

• Ezekiel 1:4

  And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst thereof as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.

• Job 37:9

  Out of the chamberof the south cometh the storm, And cold out of the north.

• Deuteronomy 5:22

  These words Jehovah spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.

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