Job 38:22-30
English Standard Version
22 “Have you entered (A)the storehouses of the snow,
or have you seen (B)the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I have reserved (C)for the time of trouble,
(D)for the day of battle and war?
24 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,
or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
25 “Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain
and (E)a way for the thunderbolt,
26 to bring rain on (F)a land where no man is,
on (G)the desert in which there is no man,
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
and to make the ground sprout with (H)grass?
28 “Has (I)the rain a father,
or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb did (J)the ice come forth,
and who has given birth to (K)the frost of heaven?
30 The waters become hard like stone,
and the face of the deep is (L)frozen.
Job 38:22-30
Common English Bible
22 Have you gone to snow’s storehouses,
seen the storehouses of hail
23 that I have reserved for a time of distress,
for a day of battle and war?
24 What is the way to the place where light is divided up;
the east wind scattered over earth?
Meteorological facts
25 Who cut a channel for the downpours
and a way for blasts of thunder
26 to bring water to uninhabited land,
a desert with no human
27 to saturate dry wasteland
and make grass sprout?
28 Has the rain a father
who brought forth drops of dew?
29 From whose belly does ice come;
who gave birth to heaven’s frost?
30 Water hardens like stone;
the surface of the deep thickens.
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