New American Bible, Revised Edition

Job 38:19-31 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

19. What is the way to the dwelling of light,and darkness—where is its place?

20. That you may take it to its territoryand know the paths to its home?

21. You know, because you were born then,and the number of your days is great!

22. Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,and seen the storehouses of the hail

23. Which I have reserved for times of distress,for a day of war and battle?

24. What is the way to the parting of the winds,where the east wind spreads over the earth?

25. Who has laid out a channel for the downpourand a path for the thunderstorm

26. To bring rain to uninhabited land,the unpeopled wilderness;

27. To drench the desolate wastelandtill the desert blooms with verdure?

28. Has the rain a father?Who has begotten the drops of dew?

29. Out of whose womb comes the ice,and who gives the hoarfrost its birth in the skies,

30. When the waters lie covered as though with stonethat holds captive the surface of the deep?

31. Have you tied cords to the Pleiades,or loosened the bonds of Orion?