The Treasures of Snow, Hail, and Weather

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Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,

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Which I haue hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?

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By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?

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Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of ye thunders,

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To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?

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To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?

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Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?

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Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?

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The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.

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Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion?

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Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?

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Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?

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Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?

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Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?