"10. I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors." . . .
"22. Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the hail?" . . .
"29. Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven, who hath gendered it?
"30. The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen."
What has this Arabian poem to do with so many allusions to clouds, rain, ice, snow, hail, frost, and frozen oceans?
"36. Who hath put wisdom in the inward part? Or who hath given understanding to the heart? "
Umbreit says that this word "heart" means literally "a shining phenomenon--a meteor." Who hath given understanding to the comet to do this work?
"38. When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods hardened together?"
{p. 309}
One version makes this read: