Job 37:6

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

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

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.”

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.

³ tn Heb “Be strong.”