Job 12:6

12:6 But the tents of robbers are peaceful,

and those who provoke God are confident

who carry their god in their hands.

Job 24:19

24:19 The drought as well as the heat carry away

the melted snow;

so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

Job 37:12

37:12 The clouds go round in circles,

wheeling about according to his plans,

to carry out all that he commands them

over the face of the whole inhabited world.


tn The verse gives the other side of the coin now, the fact that the wicked prosper.

tn The plural is used to suggest the supreme degree of arrogant confidence (E. Dhorme, Job, 171).

sn The line is perhaps best understood as describing one who thinks he is invested with the power of God.

tn Heb “the waters of the snow.”

tn Or “so Sheol.”

tn This is the meaning of the verse, which in Hebrew only has “The grave / they have sinned.”

tn The words “the clouds” are supplied from v. 11; the sentence itself actually starts: “and it goes round,” referring to the cloud.

tn Heb “that it may do.”