22-30 “Have you ever traveled to where snow is made,
    seen the vault where hail is stockpiled,
The arsenals of hail and snow that I keep in readiness
    for times of trouble and battle and war?
Can you find your way to where lightning is launched,
    or to the place from which the wind blows?
Who do you suppose carves canyons
    for the downpours of rain, and charts
    the route of thunderstorms
That bring water to unvisited fields,
    deserts no one ever lays eyes on,
Drenching the useless wastelands
    so they’re carpeted with wildflowers and grass?
And who do you think is the father of rain and dew,
    the mother of ice and frost?
You don’t for a minute imagine
    these marvels of weather just happen, do you?

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

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