Job 38:23

23. The day of battle and war Man’s ordnance for war is the wide-mouthed and wide-resounding cannon; God’s, the silent snowflake, the blight, the unseen fungi floating in the air, or marshalled hosts of insects. “Providence,” said Napoleon, “is on the side of the heaviest battalions;” heaven’s answer consisted simply of snow and hail and cold; and one of the mightiest armies of modern times was laid low. Horace has a similar thought:

Too long, alas! with storms of hail and snow,

Jove has chastised the world below.

Demosthenes compares the destructive course of King Philip to a storm of hail. For Scripture illustrations see Exodus 9:18; Joshua 10:11; 1Sa 7:10 ; 2 Samuel 23:20; Psalms 68:14; Isaiah 28:17, etc.