God's Word Translation

Job 38:20-35 God's Word Translation (GW)

20. so that you may lead it to its territory,so that you may know the path to its home?

21. You must know because you were born thenand have lived such a long time!

22. Have you been to the warehouses where snow is storedor seen the warehouses for hail

23. that I have stored up for the time of trouble,for the day of battle and war?

24. Which is the way to the place where light is scatteredand the east wind is spread across the earth?

25. “Who made a channel for the flooding rainsand a path for the thunderstorms

26. to bring rain on a land where no one lives,on a desert where there are no humans,

27. to saturate the desolate wastelandin order to make it sprout with grass?

28. Does the rain have a father?Who gave birth to the dewdrops?

29. From whose womb came the ice,and who has given birth to the frost in the air?

30. The water hardens like a stone,and the surface of the ocean freezes over.

31. “Can you connect the chains of the ⌊constellation⌋ Pleiadesor untie the ropes of Orion?

32. Can you bring out the constellations at the right timeor guide Ursa Major with its cubs?

33. Do you know the laws of the skyor make them rule the earth?

34. Can you call to the cloudsand have a flood of water cover you?

35. Can you send lightning flashes so that they may go and say to you,‘Here we are’?