9.  Who is the father of the rain?  And who hath begotten the drops of dew Job xxxviii. 28.?  Who condensed the air into clouds, and bade them carry the waters of the rain Whewell, Astronomy, p. 88:  “Clouds are produced by aqueous vapour when it returns to the state of water.”  p. 89:  “Clouds produce rain.  In the formation of a cloud the precipitation of moisture probably forms a fine watery powder, which remains suspended in the air in consequence of the minuteness of its particles:  but if from any cause the precipitation is collected in larger portions, and becomes drops, these descend by their weight and produce a shower.”  Compare Aristotle, Meterologica, I. ix. 3; Ansted, Physical Geography, p. 210., now bringing golden-tinted clouds from the north Job xxxvii. 22:  “Out of the north cometh golden splendour” (R.V.)., now changing these into one uniform appearance, and again transforming them into manifold circles and other shapes?  Who can number the clouds in wisdom Job xxxviii. 37.?  Whereof in Job it saith, And He knoweth the separations of the clouds Job xxxvii. 16:  “Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds?”  In the Septuagint διάκρισιν νεφῶν may mean “the separate path of the clouds” (Vulg. “semitas nubium,”) or “the dissolving,” as in Aristotle (Meteorol. I. vii. 10:  διακρίνεσθαι καὶ διαλύεσθαι τὸ διάτμίζον ὑγρὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθους τῆς θερμῆς ἀναθυμιάσεως, ὥστε μὴ συνίστασθαι ῥαδίως εἰς ὕδωρ.  “The moist vapour is separated and dissolved by the great heat of the evaporation, so that it does not easily condense into water.”  Cf. Plato, Sophistes 243 B:  διακρίσεις καὶ συγκρίσεις., and hath bent down the heaven to the earth Job xxxviii. 37 (according to the Septuagint):  “And who is he that numbereth the clouds by wisdom, and bent down the heaven to the earth?”  A.V., R.V.  “Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven?”:  and, He who numbereth the clouds in wisdom:  and, the cloud is not rent under Him Job xxvi. 8:  “He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.”.  For so many measures of waters lie upon the clouds, yet they are not rent:  but come down with all good order upon the earth.  Who bringeth the winds out of their treasuries Ps. cxxxv. 7.?  And who, as we said before, is he that hath begotten the drops of dew?  And out of whose womb cometh the ice Job xxxviii. 28.?  For its substance is like water, and its strength like stone.  And at one time the water becomes snow like wool, at another it ministers to Him who scattereth the mist like ashes Ps. cxlvii. 16:  “He scattereth the hoar frost like ashes.”  The Hebrew דוׂפכּ is rendered by πάχνη, “hoar frost,” in Job xxxviii. 29, but here by ὀμιχλη, “mist.”, and at another it is changed into a stony substance; since He governs the waters as He will Job xxxvii. 10:  “the breadth of the waters is straitened” (Marg. R.V. “congealed”).  The word οἰακίζει in the Septuagint means to “steer,” Lat. “gubernare” to “turn as by a helm.”.  Its nature is uniform, and its action manifold in force.  Water becomes in vines wine that maketh glad the heart of man:  and in olives oil that maketh man’s face to shine:  and is transformed also into bread that strengtheneth man’s heart Ps. civ. 15., and into fruits of all kinds which He hath created There is a similar passage on the various effects of water in Cat. xvi. 12.  Chrysostom (de Statuis, Hom. xii. 2), Epiphanius (Ancoratus, p. 69), and other Fathers, appear to reproduce both the thoughts and words of Cyril..