² and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

¹¹ Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

¹² And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth.

¹³ Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness -- He doth cause it to come.

³⁷ Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,

²⁸ In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,

³ When Thou dost cast me `into' the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

⁹ for I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth, and to another, Be coming, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doth `it'.'

²⁶ And he saith to them, `Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?' Then having risen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm;

²⁷ and the men wondered, saying, `What kind -- is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'