Job 37:17 You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

English Standard Version
you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?

New American Standard Bible
You whose garments are hot, When the land is still because of the south wind?

King James Bible
How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You whose clothes get hot when the south wind brings calm to the land,

International Standard Version
you whose garments are hot, even though the land is cooled by a south wind?

American Standard Version
How thy garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the south wind ?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the earth?

Darby Bible Translation
How thy garments become warm when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Young's Literal Translation
How thy garments are warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south?

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

37:14-20 Due thoughts of the works of God will help to reconcile us to all his providences. As God has a powerful, freezing north wind, so he has a thawing, composing south wind: the Spirit is compared to both, because he both convinces and comforts, So 4:16. The best of men are much in the dark concerning the glorious perfections of the Divine nature and the Divine government. Those who, through grace, know much of God, know nothing, in comparison with what is to be known, and of what will be known, when that which is perfect is come.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17. thy garments, &c.—that is, dost thou know how thy body grows warm, so as to affect thy garments with heat?

south wind—literally, "region of the south." "When He maketh still (and sultry) the earth (that is, the atmosphere) by (during) the south wind" (So 4:16).