24. What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
25. Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,and a path for the thunderstorm,
26. to water a land where no one lives,an uninhabited desert,
27. to satisfy a desolate wastelandand make it sprout with grass?
28. Does the rain have a father?Who fathers the drops of dew?
29. From whose womb comes the ice?Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
30. when the waters become hard as stone,when the surface of the deep is frozen?
31. ‘Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades?Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
32. Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasonsor lead out the Bear with its cubs?
33. Do you know the laws of the heavens?Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?
34. ‘Can you raise your voice to the cloudsand cover yourself with a flood of water?
35. Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?Do they report to you, “Here we are”?
36. Who gives the ibis wisdomor gives the cockerel understanding?
37. Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
38. when the dust becomes hardand the clods of earth stick together?
39. ‘Do you hunt the prey for the lionessand satisfy the hunger of the lions
40. when they crouch in their densor lie in wait in a thicket?