Job 37:6

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

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

Job 28:26

28:26 When he imposed a limit ⁴  for the rain,

and a path for the thunderstorm, ⁵ 

Job 29:23

29:23 They waited for me as people wait ⁶  for the rain,

and they opened their mouths ⁷ 

as for ⁸  the spring rains.

Job 36:27

36:27 He draws up drops of water;

they distill ⁹  the rain into its mist, ¹⁰ 

Job 38:28

38:28 Does the rain have a father,

or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

Job 5:10

5:10 he gives ¹¹  rain on the earth, ¹² 

and sends ¹³  water on the fields; ¹⁴ 

[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.”

[28:26]  ⁴ tn Or “decree.”

[28:26]  ⁵ tn Or “thunderbolt,” i.e., lightning. Heb “the roaring of voices/sounds,” which describes the nature of the storm.

[29:23]  ⁷ tn The phrase “people wait for” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation.

[29:23]  ⁸ sn The analogy is that they received his words eagerly as the dry ground opens to receive the rains.

[29:23]  ⁹ tn The כּ (kaf) preposition is to be supplied by analogy with the preceding phrase. This leaves a double proposition, “as for” (but see Job 29:2).

[36:27]  ¹⁰ tn The verb means “to filter; to refine,” and so a plural subject with the drops of water as the subject will not work. So many read the singular, “he distills.”

[36:27]  ¹¹ tn This word עֵד (’ed) occurs also in Gen 2:6. The suggestion has been that instead of a mist it represents an underground watercourse that wells up to water the ground.

[5:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “who gives.” The participle continues the doxology here. But the article is necessary because of the distance between this verse and the reference to God.

[5:10]  ¹⁴ tn In both halves of the verse the literal rendering would be “upon the face of the earth” and “upon the face of the fields.”

[5:10]  ¹⁵ tn The second participle is simply coordinated to the first and therefore does not need the definite article repeated (see GKC 404 §126.b).

[5:10]  ¹⁶ tn The Hebrew term חוּצוֹת (khutsot) basically means “outside,” or what is outside. It could refer to streets if what is meant is outside the house; but it refers to fields here (parallel to the more general word) because it is outside the village. See Ps 144:13 for the use of the expression for “countryside.” The LXX gives a much wider interpretation: “what is under heaven.”