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Job 37:13-15
New English Translation
Job 37:13-15
New English Translation
13 Whether it is for punishment,[a]
or for his land,
or for mercy,
he causes it to find its mark.[b]
14 “Pay attention to this, Job!
Stand still and consider the wonders God works.
15 Do you know how God commands them,[c]
how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?[d]
Footnotes
- Job 37:13 tn Heb “rod,” i.e., a rod used for punishment.
- Job 37:13 tn This is interpretive; Heb “he makes find it.” The lightning could be what is intended here, for it finds its mark. But R. Gordis (Job, 429) suggests man is the subject—let him find what it is for, i.e., the fate appropriate for him.
- Job 37:15 tn The verb is בְּשׂוּם (besum, 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.
- Job 37:15 tn Dhorme reads this “and how his stormcloud makes lightning to flash forth?”
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