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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”

22 Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?
Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,(A)
23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,
for the day of warfare and battle?(B)
24 What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?[a]
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

25 Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain
or clears the way for lightning,
26 to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
on a desert with no human life,[b]
27 to satisfy the parched wasteland
and cause the grass to sprout?(C)
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathered the drops of dew?(D)
29 Whose womb did the ice come from?
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
30 when water becomes as hard as stone,[c]
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 38:24 Or where lightning is distributed
  2. 38:26 Lit no man in it
  3. 38:30 Lit water hides itself as the stone