He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes.
He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’
“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,
From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding,
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,