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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Storms were associated with appearances of God in Exodus 19:19–20; Judges 5:4–5; Habakkuk 3:5–6; Psalm 18:8–16. NEB and others use “tempest,” and TEV “storm.” In translation it may be necessary to restructure out of the whirlwind, which refers to the place from which the Lord speaks to Job. In some languages this is expressed “from inside the storm,” “from the heart of the storm,” or as a simile, “The Lord spoke to Job like a great wind storm.” Who is this that darkens counsel …? is a question
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