² The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

¹² Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

⁸ He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

⁹ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

⁶ Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.

⁷ Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

⁶ Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

²⁴ These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

⁴ Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?