Talmud do Hioba 38:26

“And on Tabernacles they are judged about water.” ²⁵³The next sentences are from Sukkah 4:1, Notes 10–12. The Mishnah is Rebbi Aqiba’s²⁵⁴It can be asserted that Heaven determines the water supply only if there is a biblical connection between Tabernacles and water., since Rebbi Aqiba said the pouring of water is a word of the Torah: On the second day and their libations. On the sixth say, and its libations. On the seventh day, and its rules. מ י מ “water”. The Torah said, bring first-fruit barley on Passover that your grain be blessed; bring first-fruit wheat on Pentecost that your tree fruits be blessed²⁵⁵This seems to follow R. Jehudah who asserts (Babli Sanhedrin70b) that the Tree of Knowledge Good and Bad was wheat (Rashi to Babli 16a.). Therefore say, water libation on Tabernacles that your water be blessed. Rebbi Simeon ben Yoḥai stated: If Israel were acceptable on New Year’s Day and ample rain was decided for them, but in the end they sinned. To reduce it is impossible [since the decision had been rendered.]²⁵⁶Corrector’s addition, unsupported by G (but its meaning understood.) What does the Holy One, praise to Him, do? He disperses it into oceans, deserts, and rivers, so that the earth have no benefit from it. What is the reason? To let rain on manless earth, desert no human in it²⁵⁷Job38:26.. If Israel were not acceptable on New Year’s Day and scarce rain was decided for them, but in the end they repented. To augment it is impossible [since the decision had been rendered.]²⁵⁶Corrector’s addition, unsupported by G (but its meaning understood.) What does the Holy One, praise to Him, do? He brings it down appropriately for the land and blows dew and winds so that the earth benefit from it. What is the reason? Its furrows make fertile, bring down its bundles, make it fat by soft rains, bless its growth²⁵⁸Ps. 65:11.. Aridity, also heat, will steal the snow waters; they sinned to the pit²⁵⁹Job24:19. Introduction to the next sentence.. The sins which they committed during the summer robbed them of the snow waters. It is written²⁶⁰Deut. 11:12.: Always the eyes of the Eternal, your God, are on it, from the start of the year. Cahana said, it is written “from poverty.²⁶¹Babli 16b. Sparse rains at the start of the rainy period lead people to repentance.” He lets it suffer at the beginning and gives it a good future at the end.