Ayub 34:13

34:13 Who entrusted ¹  to him the earth?

And who put him over ²  the whole world?

Ayub 37:12

37:12 The clouds ³  go round in circles,

wheeling about according to his plans,

to carry out ⁴  all that he commands them

over the face of the whole inhabited world.

[34:13]  ¹ tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) means “to visit; to appoint; to number.” Here it means “to entrust” for care and governing. The implication would be that there would be someone higher than God – which is what Elihu is repudiating by the rhetorical question. No one entrusted God with this.

[34:13]  ² tn The preposition is implied from the first half of the verse.

[37:12]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “that it may do.”