Job 38:22-38

22Have you visited the place where I keep all the snow? Or the place where I keep the hail?

23I keep the snow and the hail ready to use. I use them in times of trouble and wars.

24You do not know where lightning comes from. Or where the east wind starts when it blows across the earth.

25I make a path for the storms to travel along. I tell the thunder and the strong rain which way to go.

26I cause rain to fall in places where no person lives. It makes even a desert become a wet place.

27The rain falls on dry ground where nothing grows. It causes grass to grow there again.

28Do you know if the rain has a father? Who is a father to the dew?

29Who is a mother to the ice? Who gives birth to the frost that makes the air so cold?

30It causes the water to become as hard as stone. The water of the sea also becomes ice.

31You cannot make the stars of the Pleiades stay in their places. You cannot change the shape of Orion.

32You bring out the groups of stars for people to see at different times of the year. You cannot put the stars of the Great Bear and the Little Bear in their right places in the sky.

33You do not know the rules that the stars above obey. You cannot make the earth obey those rules.

34You cannot shout commands to the clouds. You cannot tell them to pour down their rain, so that a flood of water covers you.

35You cannot send the lightning to hit the place that you want it to go. The lightning does not say to you, “We are ready to go wherever you want.”

36Who has given people wisdom, so that they understand things with their minds?

37Is anyone wise enough to count the clouds? Can anyone cause the clouds to pour down rain from above?

38The rain causes the dust of the dry ground to become hard. The dry soil becomes pieces of mud.