²² Have you visited the warehouses where the snow is kept?
Have you seen the warehouses^[a] where the hail is stored?
²³ I have reserved them for troubled times,
for days of battle and war.

²⁴ What is the way to the place where the lightning divides,^[b]
where the east wind is scattered over the earth?
²⁵ Who has excavated a channel for the floodwaters
and a road for the rolling thunder?
²⁶ They bring rain to lands where no one lives,
to a wilderness without a person in it.
²⁷ The rain satisfies the wilderness and wasteland
and causes the dry ground to produce green plants.
²⁸ Does the rain have a father?
Who is the father of the drops of dew?
²⁹ Whose womb produces the ice?
Who gives birth to the heavy frost from the sky?
³⁰ The water is disguised as stone,
and the surface of the deep is trapped under ice.