21. Surely you know these things, since you are so old and wise. You were alive when I made them, weren’t you?
22. “Have you ever gone into the storerooms where I keep the snow and the hail?
23. I save them there for times of trouble, for the times of war and battle.
24. Have you ever gone to the place where the sun comes up, where it makes the east wind blow all over the earth?
25. Who dug ditches in the sky for the heavy rain? Who made a path for the thunderstorm?
26. Who makes it rain even in desert places where no one lives?
27. The rain gives that dry empty land all the water it needs, and grass begins to grow.
28. Does the rain have a father? Who produces the drops of dew?
29. Does ice have a mother? Who gives birth to the frost?
30. That’s when the water freezes as hard as a rock. Even the deep sea freezes over!
31. “Can you tie up the Pleiades? Can you unfasten the belt of Orion?