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
New Living Translation
22 “Have you visited the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of hail?
23 (I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble,
for the day of battle and war.)
24 Where is the path to the source of light?
Where is the home of the east wind?
25 “Who created a channel for the torrents of rain?
Who laid out the path for the lightning?
26 Who makes the rain fall on barren land,
in a desert where no one lives?
27 Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground
and make the tender grass spring up?
28 “Does the rain have a father?
Who gives birth to the dew?
29 Who is the mother of the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?
30 For the water turns to ice as hard as rock,
and the surface of the water freezes.
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