Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
Parallel translations
- WEB Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.
- BSB Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
- NKJV He comes from the north as golden splendor; With God is awesome majesty.
- NASB “From the north comes golden splendor; Around God is awesome majesty.
- NLT So also, golden splendor comes from the mountain of God. He is clothed in dazzling splendor.
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Quick answer
Golden splendor comes out of the north, and around God is awesome majesty. Creation's grandeur points to the surpassing greatness of its Maker.
Overview
Elihu draws the eye to a gleaming sky and then upward to the terrifying majesty that surrounds God himself. The created splendor is only a faint shadow of the divine glory. This builds the sense of holy awe that climaxes when the LORD finally speaks.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 104:1Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
- Heb 12:29For our God is a consuming fire.
- Jude 1:25To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
- Job 40:10Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
- 1 Chr 29:11Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
- Prov 25:23The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
- Hab 3:3–19God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
- Heb 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Nah 1:3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Mic 5:4And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
- Ps 68:7–8O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
- Isa 2:19And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
- Ps 93:1The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
- Isa 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
- Ps 145:5I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
- Ps 66:5Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
- Ps 76:12He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
- Ps 29:4The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
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