25. “Who has cut open a channel for the torrents and a way for the thunder bolts,
26. to bring rain on a land where no one lives, a desert where no humans live,
27. to satisfy desert and wasteland, and to cause the ground to put forth the rising of grass?
28. Is there a father for the rain, or who fathered the drops of dew?
29. From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered the frost of heaven?
30. Like stone the waters become hard, and the faces of the deep freeze.
31. “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or can you loosen the cords of Orion?
32. Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or can you lead the Bear with its children?
33. Do you know heaven’s statutes, or can you establish their rule on the earth?
34. Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you?
35. Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?
36. Who has put wisdom in the ibis, or who has given understanding to the rooster?