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.
38:12 Have you ever in your life 3 commanded the morning,
or made the dawn know 4 its place,
1 tn The words “the clouds” are supplied from v. 11; the sentence itself actually starts: “and it goes round,” referring to the cloud.
2 tn Heb “that it may do.”
3 tn The Hebrew idiom is “have you from your days?” It means “never in your life” (see 1 Sam 25:28; 1 Kgs 1:6).
4 tn The verb is the Piel of יָדַע (yada’, “to know”) with a double accusative.