Job 36:27
27 He draws up drops of water;
they distill ▼▼tn The verb means “to filter; to refine,” and so a plural subject with the drops of water as the subject will not work. So many read the singular, “he distills.”
the rain into its mist, ▼▼tn This word
עֵד (
ʿed) occurs also in
Gen 2:6. The suggestion has been that instead of a mist it represents an underground watercourse that wells up to water the ground.
