¹⁶ He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust.

⁶ For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

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

⁸ Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:

⁹ Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.

¹⁰ By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

¹⁰ For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;