Job 37:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ How thy garments are warm, When he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ [Or] why your garments are hot when He quiets the earth [in sultry summer] with the [oppressive] south wind?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ How thy garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the south wind?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ you whose clothes are hot when earth is calmed by the south wind?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Are not your garments hot, when the south wind blows across the land?

Job 37:17 Cross References

Luke 12:55

And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat,’ and it happens.

Psalm 147:18

He sends out his word and melts them; he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.

Job 38:31

“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion?

Job 6:17

In time of heat they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Job 37:16

Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of the one whose knowledge is perfect,

Job 37:18

Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?