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,^[a]
27 to satisfy the parched wasteland
and cause the grass to sprout?^(A)
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathered the drops of dew?^(B)
29 Whose womb did the ice come from?
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
³⁰ when water becomes as hard as stone,^[b]
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?^(C)

³⁶ Who put wisdom^(C) in the heart^[b]
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?