^{16 Ref} Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

^{17 Ref} Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

^{18 Ref} Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

^{19 Ref} Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

^{20 Ref} So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

^{21 Ref} No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

^{22 Ref} Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

^{23 Ref} Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

^{24 Ref} Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

^{25 Ref} By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

^{26 Ref} Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

^{27 Ref} To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

^{28 Ref} Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

^{29 Ref} Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

^{30 Ref} The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

^{31 Ref} Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

^{32 Ref} Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

^{33 Ref} Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

^{34 Ref} Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

^{35 Ref} Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

^{36 Ref} Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

^{37 Ref} By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

³⁸ When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?