The Meaning of Job 38:1 Explained

Job 38:1

KJV: Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

YLT: And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --

Darby: And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

ASV: Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 38:1?

MEANING: What does Job 38:1 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 38:1 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 38:1?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Then the LORD  answered  Job  out of the whirlwind,  and said, 

What does Job 38:1 Mean?

Study Notes

The Lord answered Job
The words of jehovah have the effect of bringing Job consciously into His presence. Job 42:5 . Hitherto the discussions have been about God, but He has been conceived as absent. Now Job and the Lord are face to face. It is noteworthy that Job does not answer Elihu. Despite his harsh judgment he has spoken so truly about God that Job remains silent. Job 38:1 might be paraphrased, "Then Jehovah answered for or on behalf of Job."

Context Summary

Job 38:1-18 - Divine Power And Human Ignorance
When the storm had ceased and the thunder was hushed, a voice spoke out of the golden splendor of the sky. See Job 37:21-22. Job had challenged God to answer him and now he is taken at his word. We recall Horeb's ancient cave, where, after wind and earthquake, there came a sound of gentle stillness. "Arise," said the Eternal to Job, "and gird thyself," Job 38:3. In after years, under similar circumstances, the Spirit entered Ezekiel to strengthen him. Surely some such strengthening was forthwith given the patriarch!
A sublime series of questions is now addressed to him, not by a God of judgment and wrath, but by a Father arguing and pleading with His child and pointing out two things: first, the inability of mortal man to understand the ways of God; and second, the minuteness and tenderness of God's providence. Job had thought of Him as remote, but He is near and is ordering all things wisely and lovingly. Can He forget His child? [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 38

1  God challenges Job to answer
4  God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance
31  and weakness

What do the individual words in Job 38:1 mean?

And answered Yahweh - Job - - out of the whirlwind and said
וַיַּֽעַן־ יְהוָ֣ה אֶת־ אִ֭יּוֹב [מנ‪‬] [הסערה] (מִ֥ן ׀) (הַסְּעָרָ֗ה) וַיֹּאמַֽר

וַיַּֽעַן־  And  answered 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: לְעַנּׄות 
Sense: to answer, respond, testify, speak, shout.
יְהוָ֣ה  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
אֶת־  - 
Parse: Direct object marker
אִ֭יּוֹב  Job 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: אִיּׄוב  
Sense: a patriarch, the subject of the book of Job.
[מנ‪‬]  - 
Parse: Preposition
[הסערה]  - 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
(מִ֥ן ׀)  out  of 
Parse: Preposition
Root: מִן 
Sense: from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than.
(הַסְּעָרָ֗ה)  the  whirlwind 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: סַעַר 
Sense: tempest, storm, whirlwind.
וַיֹּאמַֽר  and  said 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.

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