24 Where is the way that (A)the light is divided,
And the east wind scattered on the earth?

25 “Who has split open a channel for the flood,
And a way for the thunderbolt,
26 To bring (B)rain on a land without [a]people,
On a desert without a person in it,
27 To (C)satisfy the waste and desolate land,
And to make the [b]seeds of grass to sprout?
28 Does (D)the rain have a father?
Or who has fathered the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb has come the (E)ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
30 Water [c]becomes hard like stone,
And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:26 Lit man
  2. Job 38:27 Or growth
  3. Job 38:30 Lit hides itself like

24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,(A)
    or the place where the east winds(B) are scattered over the earth?(C)
25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
    and a path for the thunderstorm,(D)
26 to water(E) a land where no one lives,
    an uninhabited desert,(F)
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
    and make it sprout with grass?(G)
28 Does the rain have a father?(H)
    Who fathers the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
    Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens(I)
30 when the waters become hard as stone,
    when the surface of the deep is frozen?(J)

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