Job 38:22-41 ▼

22 Have you come to the treasure of snow? Indeed, do you see the treasures of hail,

23 That I have kept back for a time of distress, || For a day of conflict and battle?

24 Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.

25 Who has divided a conduit for the flood? And a way for the lightning of the voices?

26 To cause [it] to rain on a land [with] no man, || A wilderness [with] no man in it.

27 To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, || And to cause to shoot up || The produce of the tender grass?

28 Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

29 From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoarfrost of the heavens, || Who has begotten it?

30 Waters are hidden as a stone, || And the face of the deep is captured.

31 Do you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Or do you open the cords of Orion?

32 Do you bring out the twelve signs in [their] season? And do you comfort the Great Bear over her sons?

33 Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint || Its dominion in the earth?

34 Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, || And abundance of water covers you?

35 Do you send out lightnings, and they go || And say to you, Behold us?

36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the covered part?

37 Who numbers the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, || Who causes to lie down,

38 In the hardening of dust into hardness, || And clods cleave together?

39 Do you hunt prey for a lion? And fulfill the desire of young lions?

40 When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert?

41 Who prepares for a raven his provision, || When his young ones cry to God? They wander without food.”