frThe fifth stanza consists exclusively of rhetorical z. T. elliptical (V. 38) questions on activities aids the part of the gods, to justify their worship anyway. By parallelistic arrangement of the last two questions, whose intensity is emphasized (V.39 ff).
The answer to these questions follows in the sixth verse in the form of another rhetorical question. Not Zeus had him ripe "for man" but "the almighty time and eternal destiny". And here is Prometheus restarted in common between him and Zeus tight (V. 46 "and"). As different as they are also (empha