¹⁶ Who is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth.

⁶ For to snow He saith, `Be `on' the earth.' And the small rain and great rain of His power.

²⁹ From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?

⁸ Fire and hail, snow and vapour, Whirlwind doing His word;

⁹ From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds -- cold,

¹⁰ From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened,

¹⁰ For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,