¹⁶ Do you understand how he moves the clouds
    with wonderful perfection and skill?

⁴ I am telling you nothing but the truth,
    for I am a man of great knowledge.

¹² But the Lord made the earth by his power,
    and he preserves it by his wisdom.
With his own understanding
    he stretched out the heavens.
¹³ When he speaks in the thunder,
    the heavens roar with rain.
He causes the clouds to rise over the earth.
    He sends the lightning with the rain
    and releases the wind from his storehouses.

²² God sits above the circle of the earth.
    The people below seem like grasshoppers to him!
He spreads out the heavens like a curtain
    and makes his tent from them.

¹⁹ By wisdom the Lord founded the earth;
    by understanding he created the heavens.
²⁰ By his knowledge the deep fountains of the earth burst forth,
    and the dew settles beneath the night sky.

⁵ How great is our Lord! His power is absolute!
    His understanding is beyond comprehension!

²⁴ O Lord, what a variety of things you have made!
    In wisdom you have made them all.
    The earth is full of your creatures.

²     You are dressed in a robe of light.
You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;
³     you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds.
You make the clouds your chariot;
    you ride upon the wings of the wind.

²⁹ Who can understand the spreading of the clouds
    and the thunder that rolls forth from heaven?

⁸ He wraps the rain in his thick clouds,
    and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.