Job 38
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Job 38:22-38

22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

23which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

25Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,

27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

28Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

29From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,

30when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

31Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

32Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs?

33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?

36Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?

37Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

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