Job 37:7

Footnotes

1. 10 Heb “by the hand of every man he seals.” This line is intended to mean with the heavy rains God suspends all agricultural activity.
2. 11 This reading involves a change in the text, for in “men” is in the construct. It would be translated, “all men whom he made” (i.e., all men of his making”). This is the translation followed by the and . Olshausen suggested that the word should have been אֲנָשִׁים (’anashim) with the final ם (mem) being lost to haplography.
3. 12 D. W. Thomas suggested a meaning of “rest” for the verb, based on Arabic. He then reads אֱנוֹשׁ (’enosh) for man, and supplies a ם (mem) to “his work” to get “that every man might rest from his work [in the fields].”