Job 37:6

For to the snow he says, ‘Fall ¹  to earth,’ and to the torrential rains, ²  ‘Pour down.’ ³ 

Ge 7:10-12; Ezr 10:9,13; Job 36:27; Job 38:22; Ps 147:16-18; Ps 148:8; Pr 28:3; Eze 13:11,13; Am 9:6; Mt 7:25-27

¹ 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.”

² 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.

³ tn Heb “Be strong.”