15. Then from the wicked the light is withheld,and the arm raised in violence is broken.
16. Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea,or walked about in the recesses of the deep?
17. Have the gates of death been revealed to you?Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
18. Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth?Tell me, if you know it all!
19. “In what direction does light reside,and darkness, where is its place,
20. that you may take them to their bordersand perceive the pathways to their homes?
21. You know, for you were born before them;and the number of your days is great!
22. Have you entered the storehouse of the snow,or seen the armory of the hail,
23. which I reserve for the time of trouble,for the day of war and battle?
24. In what direction is lightning dispersed,or the east winds scattered over the earth?
25. Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains,and a path for the rumble of thunder,
26. to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land,a desert where there are no human beings,
27. to satisfy a devastated and desolate land,and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
28. Does the rain have a father,or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
29. From whose womb does the ice emerge,and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,