Job 24:8

24:8 They are soaked by mountain rains

and huddle ¹  in the rocks because they lack shelter.

Job 37:6

37:6 For to the snow he says, ‘Fall ²  to earth,’

and to the torrential rains, ³  ‘Pour down.’ ⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “embrace” or “hug.”

² tn The verb actually means “be” (found here in the Aramaic form). The verb “to be” can mean “to happen, to fall, to come about.”

³ tn Heb “and [to the] shower of rain and shower of rains, be strong.” Many think the repetition grew up by variant readings; several Hebrew mss delete the second pair, and so many editors do. But the repetition may have served to stress the idea that the rains were heavy.

⁴ tn Heb “Be strong.”