InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Job C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C39 C40 C41 C42
Job 38 V1 V3 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41
OET (OET-RV) ⇔ Can you command the clouds with your voice,
⇔ ≈ and cause a flood of water to cover you?
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
הֲתָרִ֣ים & קוֹלֶ֑ךָ
will,you_lift_up? & voice_of,your
Yahweh is speaking of how Job might raise his voice by association to mean how Job might shout out a command. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [Will you shout a command]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun
לָעָ֣ב
to,cloud[s]
Yahweh is not referring to a specific cloud. He means clouds in general. It may be more natural in your language to express this meaning by using a plural form. Alternate translation: [to the clouds]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וְֽשִׁפְעַת־מַ֥יִם תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ
(Some words not found in UHB: will,you_lift_up? to,cloud[s] voice_of,your and,an_abundance_of waters it,will_cover_you )
By waters, Yahweh implicitly means rain. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [and make heavy rain fall on you]
OET (OET-RV) ⇔ Can you command the clouds with your voice,
⇔ ≈ and cause a flood of water to cover you?
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.