10 Ice is formed by the breath of God,(A)
and watery expanses are frozen.
11 He saturates clouds with moisture;(B)
He scatters His lightning through them.
12 They swirl about,
turning round and round at His direction,
accomplishing everything He commands them
over the surface of the inhabited world.

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10 The breath of God produces ice,
    and the broad waters become frozen.(A)
11 He loads the clouds with moisture;(B)
    he scatters his lightning(C) through them.(D)
12 At his direction they swirl around
    over the face of the whole earth
    to do whatever he commands them.(E)

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10 (A)By the breath of God ice is given,
And the broad waters are frozen.
11 Also with moisture He saturates the thick clouds;
He scatters His [a]bright clouds.
12 And they swirl about, being turned by His guidance,
That they may (B)do whatever He commands them
On the face of [b]the whole earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 37:11 clouds of light
  2. Job 37:12 Lit. the world of the earth

10 By the breath of God (A)ice is given,
    and (B)the broad waters are frozen fast.
11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
    the clouds scatter his lightning.
12 They (C)turn around and around by his (D)guidance,
    (E)to accomplish all that he commands them
    on the face of (F)the habitable world.

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