19. Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place,
20. that you should take it to its boundary, and know the paths to its home?
21. Do you know? For you would have been born then, and the number of your days been many!
22. Have you entered into the storehouses of snow, or have you seen the storehouses of hail,
23. which I have kept for the time of distress, for the day of fighting and battle?
24. Where is the way that light is divided, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25. Who has cleft a channel for the overflowing water, or a way for the thunderclaps,
26. to make rain fall on land where no one is, a wilderness in which there is no man;
27. to satisfy the wild and waste places, and to make the seeds of grass to sprout?
28. Does the rain have a father? Or who has brought forth the drops of dew?
29. From whose belly comes the ice? And who gave birth to the frost of the heavens?
30. The waters harden like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen.
31. Do you bind the bands of Kimah, or loosen the cords of Kesil?
32. Do you bring out the constellations in its season? Or do you lead the Bear with its sons?
33. Do you know the laws of the heavens? Or do you set their rule over the earth?
34. Do you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that floods of water cover you?
35. Do you send out lightnings, and they go and say to you, ‘Here we are!’?
36. Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the heart?
37. Who has wisdom to count the clouds, or to tip over the bottles of the heavens,
38. when the dust hardens in clumps, and the clods cling together?
39. Do you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,