²⁵ Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
    and a path for the thunderstorm,^(A)
26 to water^(B) a land where no one lives,
    an uninhabited desert,^(C)
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
    and make it sprout with grass?^(D)
28 Does the rain have a father?^(E)
    Who fathers the drops of dew?
²⁹ From whose womb comes the ice?
    Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens^(F)
30 when the waters become hard as stone,
    when the surface of the deep is frozen?^(G)

³⁴ “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
    and cover yourself with a flood of water?^(A)
35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?^(B)
    Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
³⁶ Who gives the ibis wisdom^[a](C)
    or gives the rooster understanding?^[b](D)
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
    Who can tip over the water jars^(E) of the heavens^(F)
38 when the dust becomes hard^(G)
    and the clods of earth stick together?^(H)

⁷ He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
    he sends lightning with the rain^(A)
    and brings out the wind^(B) from his storehouses.^(C)