Job 36:32

With his hands ¹  he covers ²  the lightning, and directs it against its target.

Ex 10:21-23; Job 26:9; Ps 18:11; Ps 135:7; Ps 147:8,9; Ps 148:8; Ac 27:20

¹ tn R. Gordis (Job, 422) prefers to link this word with the later Hebrew word for “arch,” not “hands.”

² 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.