18. Do you realize the extent of the earth?Tell me about it if you know!
19. “Where does light come from,and where does darkness go?
20. Can you take each to its home?Do you know how to get there?
21. But of course you know all this!For you were born before it was all created,and you are so very experienced!
22. “Have you visited the storehouses of the snowor seen the storehouses of hail?
23. (I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble,for the day of battle and war.)
24. Where is the path to the source of light?Where is the home of the east wind?
25. “Who created a channel for the torrents of rain?Who laid out the path for the lightning?
26. Who makes the rain fall on barren land,in a desert where no one lives?
27. Who sends rain to satisfy the parched groundand make the tender grass spring up?
28. “Does the rain have a father?Who gives birth to the dew?
29. Who is the mother of the ice?Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?
30. For the water turns to ice as hard as rock,and the surface of the water freezes.
31. “Can you direct the movement of the stars—binding the cluster of the Pleiadesor loosening the cords of Orion?
32. Can you direct the constellations through the seasonsor guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens?
33. Do you know the laws of the universe?Can you use them to regulate the earth?