מִֽי־פִלַּ֣ג לַשֶּׁ֣טֶף תְּעָלָ֑ה וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃
Sino ang humukay ng daluyan para sa bumubuhos na ulan, at ng daan para sa kidlat na may kasamang kulog,
Rashi
from the tempest Heb. מן הסערה. Count your hairs and I will give you as many answers. From the tempest with which you reproached Me (above 9:17), “He Who would crush me with a tempest,” I will answer you, as you will hear at the end of the chapter (verse 25), “Who has separated a place for the hair?” a shaft for every hair. Another explanation: With a tempest He afflicted him, and with a tempest He healed him, as is explained in Sifrei(?).
Radak
Give ear to my words, O Lord, Consider my meditation: – Give ear to what I utter with my mouth and consider what I meditate in my heart. Therefore he uses the word consider with meditation, and give ear to with my words. He uses (the term) הגיגי (“my meditation”), which is derived from הגה by doubling the second radical, just as (in the verse) “for the lightning (חזיז) of the thunder” (Job 38:25), (where חזיז is derived) from חזה.
Ramban
TO EIN MISHPAT, WHICH IS KADESH. It is named [Ein Mishpat, meaning, “the Well of Judgment”] on account of a future event, for Moses and Aaron will be judged because of what will occur at that fountain.148See Numbers 20:7-13. Thus the words of Rashi based upon an Agadah.149Tanchumah Chukath, 11. So also in Targum Jonathan here.
But I do not understand this for this Kadesh [mentioned here] is Kadesh-barnea which is in El-paran which is by the desert,150As mentioned here in Verse 6. and it is from there that the spies were sent by Moses in the second year following the Exodus from Egypt, as it is said, Unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh.151Numbers 13:26. And it is further written, And we came to Kadesh-barnea… and ye said, Let us send men before us,152Deuteronomy 1:19, 22. and there Israel abode many days.153Ibid., Verse 46. But the Kadesh where the judgment of the righteous ones154Moses and Aaron. took place is in the wilderness of Zin, which they entered in the fortieth year following the Exodus, as it is said, And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people abode in Kadesh,155Numbers 20:1. and finish the chapter.156A charge by the author to finish the chapter containing the account of the smiting of the rock by Moses to bring forth water and his consequent punishment. Perhaps the Midrash [mentioned above] alludes only to the name, meaning that a place bearing this name Kadesh will become “the Well of Judgment.”
Now Onkelos said, “the plain of pilug dina,” but I do not know what this means. Perhaps the word pilug is derived from [the Hebrew word used in the following verses]: ‘Plagim’ (Streams) and watercourses;157Isaiah 30:25. Who ‘pilag’ (hath cleft) a channel for the waterflood.158Job 38:25. Similarly, in the language of the Sages we find,159Esther Rabbah, 5. “Pilgo (The openness) of the sea.” The verse thus states that on that plain there will flow “a fountain of judgment” entering the depth of the case, as this was a fitting plain destined for kings who would sit there to judge all the peoples of these lands.
But I do not understand this for this Kadesh [mentioned here] is Kadesh-barnea which is in El-paran which is by the desert,150As mentioned here in Verse 6. and it is from there that the spies were sent by Moses in the second year following the Exodus from Egypt, as it is said, Unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh.151Numbers 13:26. And it is further written, And we came to Kadesh-barnea… and ye said, Let us send men before us,152Deuteronomy 1:19, 22. and there Israel abode many days.153Ibid., Verse 46. But the Kadesh where the judgment of the righteous ones154Moses and Aaron. took place is in the wilderness of Zin, which they entered in the fortieth year following the Exodus, as it is said, And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people abode in Kadesh,155Numbers 20:1. and finish the chapter.156A charge by the author to finish the chapter containing the account of the smiting of the rock by Moses to bring forth water and his consequent punishment. Perhaps the Midrash [mentioned above] alludes only to the name, meaning that a place bearing this name Kadesh will become “the Well of Judgment.”
Now Onkelos said, “the plain of pilug dina,” but I do not know what this means. Perhaps the word pilug is derived from [the Hebrew word used in the following verses]: ‘Plagim’ (Streams) and watercourses;157Isaiah 30:25. Who ‘pilag’ (hath cleft) a channel for the waterflood.158Job 38:25. Similarly, in the language of the Sages we find,159Esther Rabbah, 5. “Pilgo (The openness) of the sea.” The verse thus states that on that plain there will flow “a fountain of judgment” entering the depth of the case, as this was a fitting plain destined for kings who would sit there to judge all the peoples of these lands.