Job 37:13-15

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Job 37:13 tn Heb “rod,” i.e., a rod used for punishment.
2. 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.
3. Job 37:15 tn The verb is בְּשׂוּם (b^esum, 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.
4. Job 37:15 tn Dhorme reads this “and how his stormcloud makes lightning to flash forth?”