English Standard Version

Job 38:20-31 English Standard Version (ESV)

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?

29. From whose womb did the ice come forth,and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?

30. The waters become hard like stone,and the face of the deep is frozen.

31. “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiadesor loose the cords of Orion?