²⁸ Does the rain have a father?^(A)
    Who fathers the drops of dew?
²⁹ From whose womb comes the ice?
    Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens^(B)
30 when the waters become hard as stone,
    when the surface of the deep is frozen?^(C)

³⁴ “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
    and cover yourself with a flood of water?^(A)

³⁵ Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?^(A)
    Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

³⁷ Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
    Who can tip over the water jars^(A) of the heavens^(B)

³⁸ when the dust becomes hard^(A)
    and the clods of earth stick together?^(B)