Ayub 37:12

37:12 The clouds ¹  go round in circles,

wheeling about according to his plans,

to carry out ²  all that he commands them

over the face of the whole inhabited world.

Ayub 37:15

37:15 Do you know how God commands them, ³ 

how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud? ⁴ 

[37:12]  ¹ tn The words “the clouds” are supplied from v. 11; the sentence itself actually starts: “and it goes round,” referring to the cloud.

[37:12]  ² tn Heb “that it may do.”

[37:15]  ³ tn The verb is בְּשׂוּם (bÿsum, from שִׂים [sim, “set”]), so the idea is how God lays [or sets] [a command] for them. The suffix is proleptic, to be clarified in the second colon.

[37:15]  ⁴ tn Dhorme reads this “and how his stormcloud makes lightning to flash forth?”