Job 38:22-30

Contemporary English Version

²² Have you been to the places
    where I keep snow and hail,
²³ until I use them to punish
    and conquer nations?
²⁴ From where does lightning leap,
    or the east wind blow?
²⁵ Who carves out a path
    for thunderstorms?
Who sends torrents of rain
²⁶ on empty deserts
    where no one lives?
²⁷ Rain that changes barren land
    to meadows green with grass.
²⁸ Who is the father of the dew
    and of the rain?
²⁹ Who gives birth to the sleet
    and the frost
³⁰ that fall in winter,
when streams and lakes
    freeze solid as a rock?