who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields,

My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.

When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating.

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

And they waited for me as for the rain. And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.

As through a wide breach they come. In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].

that the profane man not reign, that there be none to ensnare the people.

For he draws up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapor,

For he says to the snow, Fall thou on the earth, likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

to cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,

Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?