18. Do you understand the great width of the earth?Tell me, if you know all these things.
19. “What is the path to light’s home?And where does darkness live?
20. Can you take them to their places?Do you know the way to their homes?
21. Surely you know, if you were already born when all this happened!Have you lived that many years?
22. “Have you ever gone into the storehouse where snow is kept?Or have you seen the storehouses for hail?
23. I save the snow and hail for times of trouble.I save them for days of war and battle.
24. How do you get to the place where light comes from?Or where is the place from which the east winds are scattered over the earth?
25. Who cuts a waterway for the heavy rains?And who sets a path for the thunderstorm to follow?
26. Who waters the land where no one lives?Who waters the desert that has no one in it?
27. Who sends rain to satisfy the empty landso the grass begins to grow?
28. Does the rain have a father?Who is father to the drops of dew?
29. Who is the mother of the ice?Who gives birth to the frost from the sky?
30. The waters become hard as stone.Even the surface of the deep ocean is frozen.
31. “Can you tie up the stars of the Pleiades?Can you loosen the ropes of the stars in Orion?
32. Can you bring out the stars at the right times?Or can you lead out the stars of the Bear with its cubs?
33. Do you know the laws of the sky?Can you understand their rule over the earth?
34. “Can you shout an order to the cloudsand cover yourself with a flood of water?
35. Can you send lightning bolts on their way?Do the flashes of lightning report to you and say, ‘Here we are’?