Job 38:20-30

20 Can you take them to their places? Do you know the way to their homes?

21 Surely you know, if you were already born when all this happened! Have you lived that many years?

22 "Have you ever gone into the storehouse of the snow or seen the storehouses for hail,

23 which I save for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?

24 Where is the place from which light comes? Where is the place from which the east winds blow over the earth?

25 Who cuts a waterway for the heavy rains and sets a path for the thunderstorm?

26 Who waters the land where no one lives, the desert that has no one in it?

27 Who sends rain to satisfy the empty land so the grass begins to grow?

28 Does the rain have a father? Who is father to the drops of dew?

29 Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the sky

30 when the water becomes hard as stone, and even the surface of the ocean is frozen?

Job 38:20-30 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 38

In this chapter the Lord takes up the controversy with Job; calls upon him to prepare to engage with him in it, and demands an answer to posing questions he puts to him, concerning the earth and the fabric of it, Job 38:1-7; concerning the sea, compared to an infant in embryo, at its birth, in its swaddling bands and cradle, Job 38:8-11; concerning the morning light, its spread and influence, Job 38:12-15; concerning the springs of the sea, the dark parts of the earth, the place both of light and darkness, Job 38:16-21; concerning the various meteors, snow, hail, rain, thunder, lightning, and the influences of the stars, Job 38:22-38; and concerning provision for lions and ravens, Job 38:40,41.