Job 37:17 meaning and explanation

You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

Job 37:17, Berean Standard Bible

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Elihu is speaking near the end of his final speech to Job, and he uses the weather as evidence of God's wisdom that people cannot grasp. In Israel the south wind brings oppressive heat that settles over the land, so that a person's clothes grow hot and cling to the skin.

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