23. (I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble,for the day of battle and war.)
24. Where is the path to the source of light?Where is the home of the east wind?
25. “Who created a channel for the torrents of rain?Who laid out the path for the lightning?
26. Who makes the rain fall on barren land,in a desert where no one lives?
27. Who sends rain to satisfy the parched groundand make the tender grass spring up?
28. “Does the rain have a father?Who gives birth to the dew?
29. Who is the mother of the ice?Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?
30. For the water turns to ice as hard as rock,and the surface of the water freezes.
31. “Can you direct the movement of the stars—binding the cluster of the Pleiadesor loosening the cords of Orion?
32. Can you direct the constellations through the seasonsor guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens?
33. Do you know the laws of the universe?Can you use them to regulate the earth?
34. “Can you shout to the cloudsand make it rain?
35. Can you make lightning appearand cause it to strike as you direct?
36. Who gives intuition to the heartand instinct to the mind?
37. Who is wise enough to count all the clouds?Who can tilt the water jars of heaven
38. when the parched ground is dryand the soil has hardened into clods?
39. “Can you stalk prey for a lionessand satisfy the young lions’ appetites
40. as they lie in their densor crouch in the thicket?
41. Who provides food for the ravenswhen their young cry out to Godand wander about in hunger?