16 Have you traveled to the sources of the sea

or walked in the depths of the oceans?

17 Have the gatesc of death been revealed to you?

Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

18 Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?

Tell me, if you know all this.

19 Where is the road to the home of light?

Do you know where darkness lives,

20 so you can lead it back to its border?

Are you familiar with the paths to its home?

21 Don’t you know? You were already born;d

you have lived so long!A

22 Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?

Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,e

23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,

for the day of warfare and battle?f

24 What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?B

Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

25 Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain

or clears the way for lightning,

26 to bring rain on an uninhabited land,

on a desert with no human life,C

27 to satisfy the parched wasteland

and cause the grass to sprout?g