Ayub 38:25-27

38:25 Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains,

and a path for the rumble of thunder,

38:26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, ¹ 

a desert where there are no human beings, ² 

38:27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land,

and to cause it to sprout with vegetation? ³ 

Ayub 38:34-35

38:34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds

so that a flood of water covers you? ⁴ 

38:35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?

Will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?

[38:26]  ¹ tn Heb “on a land, no man.”

[38:26]  ² tn Heb “a desert, no man in it.”

[38:27]  ³ tn Heb “to cause to sprout a source of vegetation.” The word מֹצָא (motsa’) is rendered “mine” in Job 28:1. The suggestion with the least changes is Wright’s: צָמֵא (tsame’, “thirsty”). But others choose מִצִּיָּה (mitsiyyah, “from the steppe”).

[38:34]  ⁴ tc The LXX has “answer you,” and some editors have adopted this. However, the reading of the MT makes better sense in the verse.