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

31 “Can you bind the chains[a] of the Pleiades?
    Can you loosen Orion’s belt?(P)
32 Can you bring forth the constellations(Q) in their seasons[b]
    or lead out the Bear[c] with its cubs?(R)
33 Do you know the laws(S) of the heavens?(T)
    Can you set up God’s[d] dominion over the earth?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:31 Septuagint; Hebrew beauty
  2. Job 38:32 Or the morning star in its season
  3. Job 38:32 Or out Leo
  4. Job 38:33 Or their

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