Job 38
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Job 38:22-38

22“Have you visited the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of hail?

23(I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war.)

24Where is the path to the source of light? Where is the home of the east wind?

25“Who created a channel for the torrents of rain? Who laid out the path for the lightning?

26Who makes the rain fall on barren land, in a desert where no one lives?

27Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up?

28“Does the rain have a father? Who gives birth to the dew?

29Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?

30For the water turns to ice as hard as rock, and the surface of the water freezes.

31“Can you direct the movement of the stars— binding the cluster of the Pleiades or loosening the cords of Orion?

32Can you direct the constellations through the seasons or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens?

33Do you know the laws of the universe? Can you use them to regulate the earth?

34“Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain?

35Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct?

36Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind?

37Who is wise enough to count all the clouds? Who can tilt the water jars of heaven

38when the parched ground is dry and the soil has hardened into clods?

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