Job 37:9 (BSB)
The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
Commentary on Job 37:9
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 37:6-13: 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!
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 37:9: 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...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 37:9: south--literally, "chambers"; connected with the south (Job 9:9). The whirlwinds are poetically regarded as pent up by God in His southern chambers, whence He sends them forth (so Job 38:22; Psa 135:7). As to the southern whirlwinds (see Isa 21:1; Zac 9:14), they drive before them burning sands; chiefly from February to May. the north--literally, "scattering"; the north wind scatters the clouds.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 37:9: Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. (f) In Hebrew it is called the scattering wind, because it drives away the clouds and purges the air.