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²² ‘Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
   or 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 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,
   or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

²⁵ ‘Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain,
   and a way for the thunderbolt,
²⁶ to bring rain on a land where no one lives,
   on the desert, which is empty of human life,
²⁷ to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
   and to make the ground put forth grass?

²⁸ ‘Has the rain a father,
   or who has begotten the drops of dew?
²⁹ From whose womb did the ice come forth,
   and who has given birth to the hoar-frost of heaven?
³⁰ The waters become hard like stone,
   and the face of the deep is frozen.

³¹ ‘Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,
   or loose the cords of Orion?
³² Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season,
   or can you guide the Bear with its children?
³³ Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?
   Can you establish their rule on the earth?

³⁴ ‘Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
   so that a flood of waters may cover you?
³⁵ Can you send forth lightnings, so that they may go
   and say to you, “Here we are”?
³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts,^*
   or given understanding to the mind?^*
37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?
   Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
³⁸ when the dust runs into a mass
   and the clods cling together?