Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
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Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
World English Bible
Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
This entry pairs Ecclesiastes 1:7 — rivers running to the sea and returning to their source — with Job 38:22, where snow and hail are kept in heavenly "treasuries" or storehouses. The pairing is meant to show the Bible has both a quasi-naturalistic hydrology and a mythological storehouse cosmology side by side, but the two verses are doing different things and aren't strictly contradictory on their own terms.
Critical scholarship: Usually considered reconciled.
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"Job 38:22 — Scripture Analysis" GEBible, https://gebible.app/analysis/verse/job/38/22?version=WEB (retrieved 27 August 2026).