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Job 36:26

Context
The Work and Wisdom of God

36:26 “Yes, God is great – beyond our knowledge! 1 

The number of his years is unsearchable.

Job 36:32

Context

36:32 With his hands 2  he covers 3  the lightning,

and directs it against its target.

1 tn The last part has the verbal construction, “and we do not know.” This clause is to be used adverbially: “beyond our understanding.”

2 tn R. Gordis (Job, 422) prefers to link this word with the later Hebrew word for “arch,” not “hands.”

3 tn Because the image might mean that God grabs the lightning and hurls it like a javelin (cf. NLT), some commentators want to change “covers” to other verbs. Dhorme has “lifts” (נִשָּׂא [nissa’] for כִּסָּה [kissah]). This fit the idea of God directing the lightning bolts.



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