17. Have the gates of death been opened to you, and have you seen the doors of darkness?
18. Have you considered the breadth of the earth? If you know all things, reveal them to me.
19. Which is the way that holds the light, and which is the place of darkness?
20. In this way, you might lead each thing to its final place, and understand the paths of its house.
21. So then, did you know when you were to be born? And did you know the number of your days?
22. Have you been admitted into the storehouses of the snows, and have you gazed upon the stockpile of the brimstone,
23. which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, for the day of the battle and the war?
24. In what way is the light scattered, and the heat distributed, over the earth?
25. Who gave a course to the rainstorms, and a path to the resounding thunder,
26. so that it would rain on the earth far from man, in the wilderness where no mortal lingers,
27. so that it would fill impassable and desolate places, and would bring forth green plants?
28. Who is the father of rain, or who conceived the drops of dew?
29. From whose womb did the ice proceed, and who created the frost from the air?
30. The waters are hardened to become like stone, and the surface of the abyss freezes over.
31. Will you have the strength to join together the sparkling stars of the Pleiades, or are you able to disperse the circling of Arcturus?
32. Can you bring forth the morning star, in its time, and make the evening star rise over the sons of the earth?