Job 38:22-41
Christian Standard Bible
22 Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?
Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,(A)
23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,
for the day of warfare and battle?(B)
24 What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?[a]
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?
25 Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain
or clears the way for lightning,
26 to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
on a desert with no human life,[b]
27 to satisfy the parched wasteland
and cause the grass to sprout?(C)
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathered the drops of dew?(D)
29 Whose womb did the ice come from?
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
30 when water becomes as hard as stone,[c]
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?(E)
31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades
or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 Can you bring out the constellations[d] in their season
and lead the Bear[e] and her cubs?(F)
33 Do you know the laws(G) of heaven?
Can you impose its[f] authority on earth?
34 Can you command[g] the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?(H)
35 Can you send out lightning(I) bolts, and they go?
Do they report to you, “Here we are”?
36 Who put wisdom(J) in the heart[h]
or gave the mind understanding?
37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?
Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
38 when the dust hardens like cast metal
and the clods of dirt stick together?
39 Can you hunt prey for a lioness
or satisfy the appetite of young lions(K)
40 when they crouch in their dens
and lie in wait within their lairs?
41 Who provides the raven’s food(L)
when its young cry out to God
and wander about for lack of food?
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