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22 “Have you entered the treasuries of the snow?
    Or have you seen the treasuries of the hail,
23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
    against the day of battle and war?
24 By what way is the light diffused,
    or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
25 Who has divided a channel for the overflowing waters,
    or a path for the thunderbolt,
26 to cause it to rain on the earth where no man is,
    on the wilderness in which there are no people,
27 to satisfy the desolate waste,
    and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 Does the rain have a father?
    Or who has produced the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb came the ice?
    And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth?
30 The waters harden like stone,
    and the surface of the deep is frozen.

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22 Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow,
or[a] have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
for the day of battle and war?
24 Where then[b] is the way where the light is distributed,
where he scatters the east wind upon the earth?
25 “Who has cut open a channel for the torrents
and a way for the thunder bolts,[c]
26 to bring rain on a land where no one lives,[d]
a desert where no humans live,[e]
27 to satisfy desert and wasteland,
and to cause the ground to put forth the rising of grass?
28 Is there a father for the rain,
or who fathered the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb did the ice come forth,
and who fathered the frost of heaven?
30 Like stone the waters become hard,
and the faces of the deep freeze.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:22 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 38:24 Or “Where exactly”
  3. Job 38:25 Literally “bolt of thunders”
  4. Job 38:26 Literally “not a man”
  5. Job 38:26 Literally “not humans in it”