Job 38
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Job 38:22-38

22Have you been to the warehouses where snow is stored or seen the warehouses for hail

23that I have stored up for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

24Which is the way to the place where light is scattered and the east wind is spread across the earth?

25“Who made a channel for the flooding rains and a path for the thunderstorms

26to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on a desert where there are no humans,

27to saturate the desolate wasteland in order to make it sprout with grass?

28Does the rain have a father? Who gave birth to the dewdrops?

29From whose womb came the ice, and who has given birth to the frost in the air?

30The water hardens like a stone, and the surface of the ocean freezes over.

31“Can you connect the chains of the ⌞constellation⌟ Pleiades or untie the ropes of Orion?

32Can you bring out the constellations at the right time or guide Ursa Major with its cubs?

33Do you know the laws of the sky or make them rule the earth?

34Can you call to the clouds and have a flood of water cover you?

35Can you send lightning flashes so that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

36Who put wisdom in the heart or gave understanding to the mind?

37Who is wise enough to count the clouds or pour out the water jars of heaven

38when the dirt hardens into clumps and the soil clings together?

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