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Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

Job 37:17

In 11 translations

BSB
You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
KJV
How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
WEB
You whose clothing is warm when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?
ASV
How thy garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the south wind?
LSV
How your garments [are] warm, || In the quieting of the earth from the south?
YLT
How thy garments [are] warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south?
DBY
How thy garments become warm when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
DRC
Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the earth?
GNV
Or howe thy clothes are warme, when he maketh the earth quiet through the South winde?
JPS
Thou whose garments are warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind;
LXXE
But thy robe is warm, and there is quiet upon the land.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אֲשֶׁר־בְּגָדֶ֥יךָ חַמִּ֑ים בְּהַשְׁקִ֥ט אֶ֝֗רֶץ מִדָּרֽוֹם׃
LXX-Br
Σοῦ δὲ ἡ στολὴ θερμὴ, ἡσυχάζεται δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 6:17but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.
  • Job 38:31Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
  • Luke 12:55And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be hot,’ and it is.
  • Psalms 147:18He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.

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