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22 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow,
    or have you seen the treasures 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 lightning distributed,
    or the east wind scattered on the earth?

25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water,
    or the path for the thunder storm,
26 to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man,
    on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
    to cause the tender grass to grow?
28 Does the rain have a father?
    Or who fathers the drops of dew?
29 Whose womb did the ice come out of?
    Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
30 The waters become hard like stone,
    when the surface of the deep is frozen.

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22 Have you gone to snow’s storehouses,
        seen the storehouses of hail
23     that I have reserved for a time of distress,
        for a day of battle and war?
24 What is the way to the place where light is divided up;
        the east wind scattered over earth?

Meteorological facts

25 Who cut a channel for the downpours
        and a way for blasts of thunder
26     to bring water to uninhabited land,
        a desert with no human
27     to saturate dry wasteland
        and make grass sprout?
28 Has the rain a father
    who brought forth drops of dew?
29 From whose belly does ice come;
    who gave birth to heaven’s frost?
30 Water hardens like stone;
    the surface of the deep thickens.

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