Ayub 37:6

37:6 For to the snow he says, ‘Fall ¹  to earth,’

and to the torrential rains, ²  ‘Pour down.’ ³ 

Ayub 37:12

37:12 The clouds ⁴  go round in circles,

wheeling about according to his plans,

to carry out ⁵  all that he commands them

over the face of the whole inhabited world.

[37:6]  ¹ tn The verb actually means “be” (found here in the Aramaic form). The verb “to be” can mean “to happen, to fall, to come about.”

[37:6]  ² tn Heb “and [to the] shower of rain and shower of rains, be strong.” Many think the repetition grew up by variant readings; several Hebrew mss delete the second pair, and so many editors do. But the repetition may have served to stress the idea that the rains were heavy.

[37:6]  ³ tn Heb “Be strong.”

[37:12]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “that it may do.”