Job 37:9
The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
BSB
ASV
Out of the chamber of the south cometh the storm, And cold out of the north.
KJV
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
A tempest will come forth from the inner parts, and cold from Arcturus. When Holy Scripture mentions the inner parts, in opposition to Arcturus, it designates the quarter of the South, opposite to the parts of the North.
Out of the south - Margin, “chamber.” Jerome, “ab interioribus - from the interior,” or “inner places.” Septuagint, ἐκ ταυείων ek taueiōn - “from their chambers issue sorrows” - ὀωύνας othunas. The Hebrew word used here (חדר cheder) denotes properly “an apartment,” or “chamber,” especially an inner apartment, or a chamber in the interior of a house or tent: Gen 43:30; Jdg 16:9, Jdg 16:12. Hence, it means a bed-chamber, 2Sa 4:7, or a female apartment or harem, Son 1:4; Son 3:
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 104:3laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
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He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is…
He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
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Job 9:9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
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He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD…
God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
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Isaiah 21:1This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
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“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.