New English Translation

Job 38:21-31 New English Translation (NET)

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,

30. when the waters become hard like stone,when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

31. Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades,or release the cords of Orion?