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,G

27 to satisfy the parched wasteland

and cause the grass to sprout?g

28 Does the rain have a father?

Who fathered the drops of dew?h

29 Whose womb did the ice come from?

Who gave birth to the frost of heaven

30 when water becomes as hard as stone,H

and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?i

31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades

or loosen the belt of Orion?

32 Can you bring out the constellationsI in their season

and lead the BearJ and her cubs?j

33 Do you know the lawsk of heaven?

Can you impose itsK authority on earth?

34 Can you commandL the clouds

so that a flood of water covers you?l

35 Can you send out lightningm bolts, and they go?

Do they report to you, “Here we are”?

36 Who put wisdomn in the heart*

or gave the mind understanding?

37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?

Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven

38 when the dust hardens like cast metal

and the clods of dirt stick together?