Job 38:22-30
New American Standard Bible
22 Have you entered the storehouses (A)of the snow,
And have you seen the storehouses of the (B)hail,
23 Which I have reserved for a time of distress,
For a day of war and battle?
24 Where is the way that (C)the light is divided,
And the east wind scattered on the earth?
25 “Who has split open a channel for the flood,
And a way for the thunderbolt,
26 To bring (D)rain on a land without [a]people,
On a desert without a person in it,
27 To (E)satisfy the waste and desolate land,
And to make the [b]seeds of grass to sprout?
28 Does (F)the rain have a father?
Or who has fathered the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb has come the (G)ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
30 Water [c]becomes hard like stone,
And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.
Job 38:22-30
International Standard Version
22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen where the hail is stored,
23 which I’ve reserved for the tribulation to come,
for the day of battle and war?
24 Where is the lightning diffused
or the east wind scattered around the earth?
25 “Who cuts canals for storm floods,
and paths for the lightning and thunder,
26 to bring rain upon a land without inhabitants,
a desert in which no human beings live,
27 to satisfy a desolate and devastated desert,
causing it to sprout vegetation?
28 “Does the rain have a father?
Who fathered the dew?
29 Whose womb brings forth the ice?
Who gives birth to frost out of an empty[a] sky,
30 when water solidifies[b] like stone
and the surface of the deepest sea freezes?
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