Job 37:7 NIV: So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labor.

Job 37:7

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New International Version (© 2011)
So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labor.

King James Bible
He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

American Standard Version
He sealeth up the hand of every man, That all men whom he hath made may know it .

Young's Literal Translation
Into the hand of every man he sealeth, For the knowledge by all men of His work.

Job 37:7 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

He sealeth up the hand of every man - After all that has been said, and much of it most learnedly, on this verse, I think that the act of freezing is probably intended; that when the earth is bound up by intense frost, the hand, יד yad, labor, of every man is sealed up; he can do no more labor in the field, till the south wind blow, by which a thaw takes place. While the earth is in this state of rigidity, the beasts go into their dens, and remain in their places, Job 37:8, some of them sleeping out the winter in a state of torpor, and others of them feeding on the stores which they had collected in autumn. However, the passage may mean no more than by the severity of the rains beasts are drawn to their covers; and man is obliged to intermit all his labors. The mighty rains are past. Who would have thought that on this verse, as its Scriptural foundation, the doctrine of chiromancy is built! God has so marked the hand of every man by the lines thereon exhibited, that they tell all the good or bad fortune they shall have during life; and he has done this that all men, by a judicious examination of their hands, may know his work! On this John Taisnier, a famous mathematician, lawyer, musician, and poet laureate of Cologne, has written a large folio volume, with more hands in it than fell to the lot of Briareus: - printed at Cologne, 1683.

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