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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28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

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28 (A)Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
And the (B)frost of heaven, who gives it birth?
30 The waters harden like stone,
And the surface of the deep is (C)frozen.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:30 Lit. imprisoned

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)

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