Snow and Hail.
"Have you entered the storehouses of snow, or have you seen the storehouses of hail?" Job 38:22
There is a cloud like region just beyond the orbit of Pluto made up of snow and rocks called the Oort cloud. Beyond Neptune there is a kind of asteroid belt, only made of ice, called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. Job wrote about these storehouses of snow and hail some 2600 years ago, before any telescopes were invented. They were proposed to exist in 1943 and 1950 by the astronomers Kenneth Edgeworth, Gerard Kuiper, and Jan Oort. The Oort cloud is technically still a theory since it can't actually be seen. Whereas, the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt can be seen, in fact Pluto is one such object in the belt. Job specifically mentions "entered" with the storehouse of snow and "seen" with the storehouse of hail. The Oort cloud can't be seen but certainly can be entered. We can see the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt similar to the rings of Saturn. I think it is takes more faith to believe someone who wrote about these things 2600 years ago was just wildly guessing than believing he actually had a conversation with the God of the universe.
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