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He comes from the north as golden splendor; With God is awesome majesty.
Job 37:22 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.
  • KJV Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
  • BSB Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
  • 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

Cross-references · 18

  • Ps 104:1Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.
  • Heb 12:29for our God is a consuming fire.
  • Jude 1:25to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
  • Job 40:10“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
  • 1 Chr 29:11Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
  • Prov 25:23The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
  • Hab 3:3–19God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
  • Heb 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  • Nah 1:3Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • Mic 5:4He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
  • Ps 68:7–8God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
  • Isa 2:19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
  • Ps 93:1Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
  • Isa 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.
  • Ps 145:5Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.
  • Ps 66:5Come, and see God’s deeds — awesome work on behalf of the children of men.
  • Ps 76:12He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.
  • Ps 29:4Yahweh’s voice is powerful. Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.

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Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 37:22 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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