In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month— on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love.