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
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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