Job 36:27
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui aufert stillas pluviæ, et effundit imbres ad instar gurgitum,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀριθμηταὶ δὲ αὐτῷ σταγόνες ὑετοῦ, καὶ ἐπιχυθήσονται ὑετῷ εἰς νεφέλην·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֭י יְגָרַ֣ע נִטְפֵי מָ֑יִם יָזֹ֖קּוּ מָטָ֣ר לְאֵדֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Floods. God causes the water on the earth to evaporate, (Calmet) to form the clouds, (Haydock) which afterwards fall in torrents. (Menochius)
Theodotion, "the drops of rain are numbered by him," &c., chap. xxvi. 8.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Basil The Hexæmeron, On the Firmament
5. But let us continue our explanation: “ Let it divide the waters from the waters .” The mass of waters, which from all directions flowed over the earth, and was suspended in the air, was infinite, so that there was no proportion between it and the other elements. Thus, as it has been already said, the abyss covered the earth. We give the reason for this abundance of water. None of you assuredly will attack our opinion; not even those who have the most cultivated minds, and whose piercing eye can penetrate this perishable and fleeting nature; you will not accuse me of advancing impossible or imaginary theories, nor will you ask me upon what foundation the fluid element rests. …