Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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- WEB Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
- BSB Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
- NKJV Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
- NASB Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind and said,
- NLT Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:
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Quick answer
At last the LORD himself answers Job, speaking out of the whirlwind. God breaks his silence not with explanations but with his own presence.
Overview
After chapters of human debate, Yahweh personally responds to Job from a storm, the classic setting of divine appearing. Notably, God does not directly explain Job's suffering; he reveals himself. This turning point shows that the deepest answer to suffering is not a reason but the living God, ultimately revealed in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Job 40:6Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
- 1 Kgs 19:11And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
- Job 37:1–2At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
- 2 Kgs 2:11And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
- Exod 19:16–19And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
- 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.
- Deut 4:11–12And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
- 2 Kgs 2:1And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
- Job 37:9Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
- Ezek 1:4And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
- Job 37:14Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
- Deut 5:22–24These words the LORD 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 in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
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