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22 Have you been to the warehouses where snow is stored or seen the warehouses for hail 23 that I have stored up for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war? 24 Which is the way to the place where light is scattered and the east wind is spread across the earth? 25 |Who made a channel for the flooding rains and a path for the thunderstorms 26 to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on a desert where there are no humans, 27 to saturate the desolate wasteland in order to make it sprout with grass? 28 Does the rain have a father? Who gave birth to the dewdrops? 29 From whose womb came the ice, and who has given birth to the frost in the air? 30 The water hardens like a stone, and the surface of the ocean freezes over. 31 |Can you connect the chains of the [constellation] Pleiades or untie the ropes of Orion? 32 Can you bring out the constellations at the right time or guide Ursa Major with its cubs? 33 Do you know the laws of the sky or make them rule the earth? 34 Can you call to the clouds and have a flood of water cover you? 35 Can you send lightning flashes so that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'? 36 Who put wisdom in the heart or gave understanding to the mind? 37 Who is wise enough to count the clouds or pour out the water jars of heaven 38 when the dirt hardens into clumps and the soil clings together? 39 |Can you hunt prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of her cubs 40 as they crouch in their dens and lie ready to ambush from their lairs? 41 |Who provides food for the crow when its young ones cry to God and wander around in need of food? Job 38:22-41, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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