Job 38:16-30

English Standard Version

¹⁶ “Have you ^(A)entered into the springs of the sea,
    or walked in the recesses of the deep?
¹⁷ Have ^(B)the gates of death been revealed to you,
    or have you seen the gates of ^(C)deep darkness?
¹⁸ Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
    Declare, if you know all this.

¹⁹ “Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
    and where is the place of darkness,
²⁰ that you may take it to its territory
    and that you may discern ^(D)the paths to its home?
²¹ You know, for ^(E)you were born then,
    and the number of your days is great!

²² “Have you entered ^(F)the storehouses of the snow,
    or have you seen ^(G)the storehouses of the hail,
²³ which I have reserved ^(H)for the time of trouble,
    ^(I)for the day of battle and war?
²⁴ What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,
    or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

²⁵ “Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain
    and ^(J)a way for the thunderbolt,
²⁶ to bring rain on ^(K)a land where no man is,
    on ^(L)the desert in which there is no man,
²⁷ to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
    and to make the ground sprout with ^(M)grass?

²⁸ “Has ^(N)the rain a father,
    or who has begotten the drops of dew?
²⁹ From whose womb did ^(O)the ice come forth,
    and who has given birth to ^(P)the frost of heaven?
³⁰ The waters become hard like stone,
    and the face of the deep is ^(Q)frozen.