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16 Do you know how the clouds are balanced,
    the wondrous work of the one who is perfect in knowledge?
17 You who swelter in your stifling garments
    when the earth lies still under the south wind,
18 can you, like him, spread out the skies,
    hard as a mirror of cast metal?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 37:18 Hard as a mirror of cast metal: see Deut 28:23 where this type of sky symbolizes unrelieved heat.