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Job 36:27

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36:27He draws up drops of water;

they distill44 the rain into its mist,45

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Footnotes

  1. 44 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.”
  2. 45 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.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For he draws up the drops of water;

they distill his mist in rain,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“He draws up the drops of water,

which distill as rain to the streams;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For he makes waterdrops evaporate;

they distill the rain into its mist,

NLTNew Living Translation

He draws up the water vapor

and then distills it into rain.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Indeed, he draws up the drops of water;

he distills the rain into its mist,

KJV 1900King James Version

For he maketh small the drops of water:

They pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: