29 Out of whose womb comes the ice, and the frost of heaven, who brings it forth?

30 The waters grow stronger like a stone, and the surface of the deep freezes.

31 Can You Tie the Knot of Hima and Loose the Bond of Kesil?

32 Can you bring out the constellations in due time and lead As with her children?

33 Do you know the statutes of heaven, are you able to establish its dominion on earth?

34 Can thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that the waters may cover thee in abundance?

35 Can you send lightnings, and will they go and say to you, 'Here we are?'

36 Who put wisdom in the heart, or who gave meaning to the understanding?

37 Who is able to number the clouds with his wisdom, and to hold the vessels of heaven,

E-38 When the dust turns to mud and the blocks stick together?

39 Do you catch the prey of the lioness, and feed the young lions?

40 When they lie in dens or lie in ambush under the shadows?

41 Who prepares the raven's food, when his chicks cry out to God, wandering about without food?

Chapter 39

1 Do you know the time when wild goats are born on the rocks, and have you noticed the birth of fallow deer?

2 Can you calculate the months of their pregnancy? and knowest thou the time of their birth?

3 They bend, bearing forth their children, throwing out their burdens;

4 Their children come to strength, grow up in the field, and go away, and do not return to them.

5 Who let the wild ass go free, and who loosed the chains of the onager,

6 To whom have I made the desert home, and the salt marshes a dwelling?

7 He laugheth at the multitude of the city, and heareth not the cry of the driver;