"... in the Septuagint, the description of heavy rain in verse 25 comes not as a contrasting addition (as in the Masoretic text) but rather a complimentary one. The description of the rain that follows in verses 26–27 of the Masoretic text is missing in the original Greek text. Possibly, the translator felt these verses were redundant. In any case, central to the questions put to Job in the Greek text, exactly as in the Masoretic text, stands the notion that none other than God is responsible for thunderstorms and heavy downpours, as well as for frost, cold and large sheets of ice (verses 25–30). Motifs from the mythology of the weather god are playfully employed (compare Psalm 29:3–9). However, in contrast to the Masoretic text, these are not flanked by any rationalizing tendency; rather, the God of Israel appears mythopoetically as the single true father of rain (verse 28). Pagan Greek poets speak in this fashion about Zeus. A section on the heavenly bodies follows upon the representation of precipitation and frost in a way that makes sense meteorologically (verses 31–33). From the “deep”, the glance turns once more to the sky and makes the Pleiades and Orion its theme. (Compare Job 9:9; Isaiah 13:10 LXX; Amos 5:8) Verse 32, which is missing in the Old Greek, possibly because the translator was not familiar with the rare Hebrew word ..."