17. Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
18. Have you comprehended the expanses of the earth? If you know it all, declare it!
19. In what direction does light dwell, and darkness, where is its place—
20. that you can take it to its borders, and discern the paths to its home?
21. Surely you know, for you were born then; and the number of your days is great!
22. “Have you entered the storehouses of snow or seen the storehouses of hail,
23. which I reserved for a time of distress, for a day of battle and war?
24. In what direction is light distributed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25. Who cuts a channel for the flood, and a path for the thunderstorm,
26. to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert with no one in it,
27. to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and cause it to sprout grass?
28. Does the rain have a father, or who has birthed the drops of dew?
29. From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost of heaven,
30. when the waters hide like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen?
31. “Can you bind the chains of Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32. Do you bring out the constellations in their season or guide the Bear with her cubs?