Job 38:25-30

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Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain
or clears the way for lightning,

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to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
on a desert with no human life,^(a)

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to satisfy the parched wasteland
and cause the grass to sprout?^(A)

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Does the rain have a father?
Who fathered the drops of dew?^(B)

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Whose womb did the ice come from?
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven

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when water becomes as hard as stone,^(b)
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?^(C)

a. Job 38:26: Lit life in it

b. Job 38:30: Lit water hides itself as the stone

A. Job 38:27: Genesis 1:11; Psalm 107:35

B. Job 38:28: Job 5:10; Psalm 147:8; Jeremiah 14:22

C. Job 38:29: Job 37:10; Psalm 147:16-17