Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message"Yet no one cries out, 'Where is God my Maker, who puts songs of praise upon our lips even in the darkest night?'"
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G"Yet none says, 'Where is Eloah my Maker, who gives songs in the night?'"
KJV
King James VersionBut none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
BSB
Berean Standard BibleBut no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
Footnotes
The divine name *עֹשַׂי* (osay, 'my Maker') is grammatically plural in Hebrew—literally 'my Makers'—a plural of majesty echoing *Elohim*, signalling the Creator's transcendent fullness rather than a plurality of gods. *זְמִרוֹת* (zemiroth, 'songs') carries the sense of jubilant praise-melody and is cognate to the verb used in Psalm 147:1 ('it is good to sing praises to our God'). That God gives songs *in the night* is theologically charged—praise as a gift of grace in the midst of suffering, an idea later embodied in Acts 16 when Paul and Silas sang at midnight in their prison cell. FOG uses the singular poetic name 'Eloah' (used throughout Job) and the concrete 'songs'; FOG Message expands to 'songs of praise' and emphasises 'the darkest night' to heighten the contrast between suffering and praise.