Job 36:27

He draws up drops of water; they distill ¹  the rain into its mist, ² 

Ge 2:5,6; Job 5:9; Job 36:33; Job 38:25-28,34; Ps 65:9-13; Ps 148:8; Isa 5:6; Jer 14:22

¹ tn 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 tn 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.