Psalms 104:10-13

104:10 He turns springs into streams; ¹ 

they flow between the mountains.

104:11 They provide water for all the animals in the field;

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

104:12 The birds of the sky live beside them;

they chirp among the bushes. ² 

104:13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; ³ 

the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow. ⁴ 

Job 38:26-27

38:26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, ⁵ 

a desert where there are no human beings, ⁶ 

38:27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land,

and to cause it to sprout with vegetation? ⁷ 

[104:10]  ¹ tn Heb “[the] one who sends springs into streams.” Another option is to translate, “he sends streams [i.e., streams that originate from springs] into the valleys” (cf. NIV).

[104:12]  ² tn Heb “among the thick foliage they give a sound.”

[104:13]  ³ tn Heb “from his upper rooms.”

[104:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the fruit of your works the earth is full.” The translation assumes that “fruit” is literal here. If “fruit” is understood more abstractly as “product; result,” then one could translate, “the earth flourishes as a result of your deeds” (cf. NIV, NRSV, REB).

[38:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “on a land, no man.”

[38:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “a desert, no man in it.”

[38:27]  ⁷ 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”).