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Read Job 15:2. To which type of wind is Job referring, and how does it play a role in what he is saying?
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A khamsin wind which drives the temperature up by 25 degrees very quickly and because it is coming off of the desert sand it fills the air with a dust that makes it hard to breathe
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The Khamsin wind–it blows from the east–is hot and causes discomfort from sand and haze.
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Khamsin Wind
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““Would a wise person answer with empty notions
or fill their belly with the hot east wind?” – This must be a khamsin (fifty). This is an East Wind (from the east…dust and heat). -
Job could be referring to the khamsin wind, described as the east wind from the desert. These are nasty winds that gust up to 60mph, lift temperatures by 25F, reduce humidity to 2 percent and fill the air with dust and haze. . They irritate everyone and have no redeeming features, unlike the Mediterranean Sea breeze which is ‘natural air conditioning’ during the summer months and aids with threshing.
