¹⁶ He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.

⁶ For he saith to the snow, Fall thou on the earth; Likewise to the shower of rain, And to the showers of his mighty rain.

²⁹ Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

⁸ Fire and hail, snow and vapor; Stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

⁹ Out of the chamber `of the south' cometh the storm, And cold out of the north.

¹⁰ By the breath of God ice is given; And the breadth of the waters is straitened.

¹⁰ For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater;