The Treasures of Snow, Hail, and Weather

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Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

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which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

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In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

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Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

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to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

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to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

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Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

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From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

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when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

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Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

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Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

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Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

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Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

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Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?