15. From the wicked their light is withheld,and their uplifted arm is broken.
16. “Have you entered into the springs of the sea,or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17. Have the gates of death been revealed to you,or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
18. Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?Declare, if you know all this.
19. “Where is the way to the dwelling of light,and where is the place of darkness,
20. that you may take it to its territoryand that you may discern the paths to its home?
21. You know, for you were born then,and the number of your days is great!
22. “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
23. which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?
24. What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
25. “Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rainand a way for the thunderbolt,
26. to bring rain on a land where no man is,on the desert in which there is no man,
27. to satisfy the waste and desolate land,and to make the ground sprout with grass?
28. “Has the rain a father,or who has begotten the drops of dew?