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Job 37:7

He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his works.

Challoner: He sealeth upWhen he sends those showers of his strength, that is, those storms of rain, he seals up, that is, he shuts up the hands of men from their usual works abroad, and confines them within doors, to consider his works; or to forecast their works, that is, what they themselves are to do.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): qui in manu omnium hominum signat, ut noverint singuli opera sua.
Septuagint (Swete): ἐν χειρὶ παντὸς ἀνθρώπου κατασφραγίζει, ἵνα γνῷ πᾶς ἄνθρωπος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀσθένειαν.
Hebrew (WLC): בְּיַד כָּל אָדָ֥ם יַחְתּ֑וֹם לָ֝דַ֗עַת כָּל אַנְשֵׁ֥י מַעֲשֵֽׂהוּ

Haydock's commentary

He sealed up, &c. When he sends those showers of his strength; that is, those storms of rain, he seals up; that is, he shuts up the hands of men from their usual work abroad, and confines them within doors, to consider his works; or to forecast their works; that is, what they themselves are to do. (Challoner)

We are all the servants of God. He marks us in the hand, as such, Isaias xliv. 5., and Ezechiel ix. 6., and Apocalypse xiii. 6. The Romans marked soldiers with a hot iron in the hands. (Veget. i. 8.)

The abettors of chiromancy have hence vainly pretended that they can discover each person's future in the lineaments of his hands. (Calmet)

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.