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Job 36:25-27
New English Translation
Job 36:25-27
New English Translation
25 All humanity has seen it;
people gaze on it from afar.
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26 “Yes, God is great—beyond our knowledge![a]
The number of his years is unsearchable.
27 He draws up drops of water;
they distill[b] the rain into its mist,[c]
Footnotes
- Job 36:26 tn The last part has the verbal construction, “and we do not know.” This clause is to be used adverbially: “beyond our understanding.”
- Job 36:27 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.”
- Job 36:27 tn This word עֵד (ʿed) 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.
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