New International Version

Job 38:21-34 New International Version (NIV)

21. Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!

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

23. which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?

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 wasteland and 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 seasons or 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 clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?