Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.

Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant:

Under the whole heavens, he letteth it loose, His lightning also, unto the wings of the earth;

Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning-cloud;

Canst thou got to know of GOD'S giving charge over them, or of the causing of the lightning of his cloud to shine forth?

Where then is the way the lightning is parted? The east wind spreadeth itself abroad over the earth.

Who hath cloven - for the torrent - a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders;

When he made, for the rain, a decree, and a way for the lightning of thunders,