Job 38:34–38

“Can you raise your voice to the clouds

and cover yourself with a flood of water?

Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?

Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Who gives the ibis wisdom

or gives the rooster understanding?

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?

Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens

when the dust becomes hard

and the clods of earth stick together?

Can you command the clouds

so that a flood of water covers you?

Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?

Do they report to you, “Here we are”?

Who put wisdom in the heart

or gave the mind understanding?

Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?

Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven

when the dust hardens like cast metal

and the clods of dirt stick together?

“Can you shout to the clouds

and make it rain?

Can you make lightning appear

and cause it to strike as you direct?

Who gives intuition to the heart

and instinct to the mind?

Who is wise enough to count all the clouds?

Who can tilt the water jars of heaven

when the parched ground is dry

and the soil has hardened into clods?

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds

so that a flood of water may cover you?

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go?

And will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Who has put wisdom in the ibis,

or who has given understanding to the rooster?

Who can number the clouds with wisdom?

Or who can tilt heaven’s jars,

at the flowing of the dust into a cast

and the clods cling together?

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds,

That abundance of waters may cover thee?

Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go,

And say unto thee, Here we are?

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts?

Or who hath given understanding to the heart?

Who can number the clouds in wisdom?

Or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

When the dust groweth into hardness,

And the clods cleave fast together?