know it all.
038:019 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness,
where is its place,
038:020 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern
the paths to its house?
038:021 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your
days is great!
038:022 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen
the treasures of the hail,
038:023 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day
of battle and war?
038:024 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind
scattered on the earth?
038:025 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path
for the thunderstorm;
038:026 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness,
in which there is no man;
038:027 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender
grass to spring forth?
038:028 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
038:029 Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky,
who has given birth to it?
038:030 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the
deep is frozen.
038:031 "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen
the cords of Orion?
038:032 Can you lead forth the constellations in their season?
Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
038:033 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish
the dominion of it over the earth?
038:034 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance
of waters may cover you?
038:035 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go?
Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'
038:036 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given
understanding to the mind?
038:037 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out
the bottles of the sky,
038:038 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of
earth stick together?
038:039 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite
of the young lions,
038:040 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
038:041 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry
to God, and wander for lack of food?
039:001 "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
039:002 Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know
the time when they give birth?
039:003 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end
their labor pains.
039:004 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field.
They go forth, and don't return again.
039:005 "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened
the bonds of the swift donkey,
039:006 Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land
his dwelling place?
039:007 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear
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