Job 37:11
Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Frumentum desiderat nubes, et nubes spargunt lumen suum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐκλεκτὸν καταπλάσσει νεφέλη. διασκορπιεῖ νέφος φῶς αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַף בְּ֭רִי יַטְרִ֣יחַ עָ֑ב יָ֝פִ֗יץ עֲנַ֣ן אוֹרֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Corn requires rain. (Haydock)
Light. As they are transparent, they do not hinder the sun from appearing. Hebrew, "the brightness of the sky disperses the clouds, and the clouds shed their light" in the rainbow, (ver. 15.; Grotius) or lightning. (Junius; Calmet; Menochius)
Protestants, "Also by watering, he wearieth the thick cloud, he scattereth his bright cloud, (12) and it is turned round about by his counsels, that they may do whatsoever," &c. God prohibits or gives rain. (Haydock)
Nothing is left to chance. (Calmet)
He directeth the clouds as a master does his ship. (Worthington)
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.